OpenEuphoria

Re: A rant on an Ideal languages

• Posted by Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM> Feb 18, 2000
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David Cuny wrote:


>If Euphoria had an eval() statement, it would be a lot easier to create
>scripting languages in it. I doubt that Robert would consider adding one,
>though.
>
>One thing I'd really like having would be a dynamic include file, such as
>
>   include_file( sequence fileName )
>
>That way, you could convert the script into a Euphoria file, such as:
>
>   -- converted script
>   procedure button_command( object self )
>      puts( 1, "Hello, world!" )
>      destroy( self )
>   end procedure
>
>   constant hello = button()
>   set_text( hello, "Hello, World" )
>   set_command( hello, routine_id("button_command"))
>   pack( hello )
>
>and then load it dynamically:
>
>   include_file("script.exw")
>
This seems a very benign way to get a little dynamic access to the
interpreter if there really is one. Maybe, it is a way to have incremental
compilation, if Euphoria is a compile and go as I think. Either way, it would
vastly expand the power of the language for fairly small cost. I vote
wholeheartedly for this one. Of course, this just absolutely requires a
cleanup of namespace handling.

Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com