OpenEuphoria

Re: 2.6 feature request: foreach (off topic)

• Posted by ags <eu at 531pi.co.nz> Jul 15, 2005
• 452 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:
> b) A "2-dimensional sequence" in Euphoria could look like this:
>       s = {
>            {1},
>            {7,8,12,-3,12},
>            {9,5}
>           }
> 
>    AFAIK storing these data in a BASIC array would look something like
>    this:
>       a = {
>            {1,0, 0, 0, 0},
>            {7,8,12,-3,12},
>            {9,5, 0, 0, 0}
>           }
> 
>    IOW, there will have to be several additional elements with value 0
>    or something, wich are not needed at all, but which waste space of
>    course.

I don't think that's a fair comparison.  Quite often the reason for having
a 2D array is if you want to access the array as a[x][y], if this is the 
case then you still need place-holders in Euphoria.

But who is worried about memory these days, really?  We're talking about a
language used on 32-bit Windows and *nix.  If we were talking embedded
applications things might be a bit different, but as long as memory use isn't
totally abused, you may as well use it; the OS will see to it that you don't
run out of fast memory.

Gary