OpenEuphoria

Re: Stupid Newbie-sounding question.

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> May 31, 2004
• 595 views

Pete wrote:

>> Juergen Luethje wrote:
> <snip>
>>> At the first glance, it might look as if an additional data type would
>>> make Euphoria more complicated,
>
> Adding a string type takes the number of cases for the "&" operator
> from 8 to 19, without considering unicode strings. Just so you know. I
> agree that string types might be nice, but they are far from trivial.

I think you are describing the point of view of the developer of the
language, right? That's interesting. I didn't know that, but I truely
believe that implementing a string datatype will mean considerable work.
Well, I am willing to pay some extra $ for such an enhancement.

>From the point of view of the user of the language, in most (if not all)
cases the "&" operator should work with a built-in string type, like it
currently works with our user-defined string types.

[snipped in agreement]

Regards,
   Juergen