Re: justifying compare

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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 00:57:34 -0800, David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> wrote:

>Here's a question for Robert:
>
>Can you get rid of the 'compare' statement from Euphoria? If not, why?
>...
>The 'compare' seems to be the major stumbling block for beginners. It
>certainly was for me.
>...
I concur wholeheartedly.

>Is there a compelling reason for Euphoria to use the 'compare' statement?

In a similar vein, the other big stumbling block is getting input
from the keyboard. Specifically the linefeed that has to be removed,
and perhaps the SUCCESS flag. Neither are needed or meaningful if
the source of the input is device 0.
Maybe I've missed something here?

Irv

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