OpenEuphoria

Re: Stupid Newbie-sounding question.

• Posted by Michelle <michellerogers at bellsouth.net> May 29, 2004
• 559 views

irv mullins wrote:
> 
> 
> Michelle wrote:
> 
> > but the problem with that is that it prints "John" as a string of the ascii
> > codes,
> > instead of an easily editable "John"..
> >   if i add if sequence() it counts "John" as a sequence, just like the
> >   sequence of
> > flags..
> > so my question is...
> > how i can (within a loop) tell it to evaluate whether to puts or print?
> > 
> > bah..told you it was a stupid newbie question
> > 
> > Michelle Rogers
> > 
> 
> Not stupid at all. 
> What the Eu docs call "flexible", I call a design flaw.
> Euphoria cannot tell the difference between "John" and {74,111,104,110}
> where the latter might be a series of integers or flags or whatever. 
> 
> The easy way is to not try to write a universal "print" function which 
> has to somehow detect how things are supposed to be printed, 
> but just use printf(.. with the appropriate params to print the entire 
> sequence at one time. Use \n as appropriate to break it up into lines.
> 
> If your flags are always either 0 or 1, (which aren't printable characters),
> you might look for 0 or 1 in every sequence, and if found, consider this to 
> be a sequence of flags, otherwise print as a string.
> 
> Irv.
> 

bah...well..i will be (probably forever) adding variables to the sequence...and
no...all of the sequences will not be "flags" that may be 0 or 1..
As a matter of fact, some sequences may be sequences of text...
I was trying to make it so that I never had to change the read/write procedures,
even though I would be adding variables on...
You seem to be saying that it may be impossible to do this?  That I may have to
manually read/write every line, instead of making a loop?  So, that means that
each time I add a new variable to the sequence, I have to also go add it to the
read/write procedures...bah..was trying to get around that.

hmm..*thinking "out loud"*...this isn't the ideal way to do it..but maybe I
could assign a fourth parameter to each "variable type" which is a 0 or a 1 to
tell if the variable should be holding a string or just plain text...well..or
even a 2 for atoms, I guess...although that I can check for