OpenEuphoria

Re: A question about certain language features

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Feb 12, 2002
• 600 views

> On 12 Feb 2002, at 4:18, tone.skoda at siol.net wrote:
> > Classes!
> >
> > include circle.e as circle
> >
> > circle circle1
> > circle cirlce2
> >
> > cirlce1.radius = 5
> > circle1. x = 0
> > circle1.y = 0
> >
> > cirlce2.radius = 10
> > circle2. x = 5
> > circle2.y = 5
> >
> > circle1.draw ()
> > circle2.draw ()
> >
> > code above would draw two differecnt circles.

Some time ago, when Dave Cuny was testing his Py interpreter, he sent me a 
version that allowed:

include sprite.e as bart
include sprite.e as lisa

bart.image = "C:\bart.bmp"
lisa.image = "C:\lisa.bmp"
bart.loc = {0,0}
lisa.loc = {100,200}

IOW, allowing multiple instances of a single "object" declared in a single 
include file. This seemed to work great, and could have been very useful. 
Unfortunately, when I reported as much to Dave, he immediately removed 
that capability. Perhaps he saw a way that it would have caused trouble.

Dave, when that happens at Microsoft, they just call it a "feature", and 
turn it over to marketing who convince the rest of us that we are going to 
like it :)

Regards,
Irv