OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria Standard Library on UBoard

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at gmail.com> Jul 25, 2005
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Tommy Carlier wrote:
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> posted by: Tommy Carlier <tommy.carlier at telenet.be>
> Here are some more suggestions I have for ESL:
> - the constants TRUE and FALSE
> - bitwise functions
> - a mechanism to ignore return-values of functions. Some options:
>   -> a global variable VOID: VOID = functionToIgnore(...) (like Win32Lib)
>   -> a procedure ignore that does nothing: ignore(functionToIgnore()) (like
>   Win4Eu)
> - an enumeration-mechanism: here's how it was done in Win4Eu:
>   }}}
<eucode>
>   constant DAY_OF_WEEK = enum()
>   constant MONDAY = next(DAY_OF_WEEK),
>            TUESDAY = next(DAY_OF_WEEK),
>            WEDNESDAY = next(DAY_OF_WEEK),
>            THURSDAY = next(DAY_OF_WEEK),
>            FRIDAY = next(DAY_OF_WEEK),
>            SATURDAY = next(DAY_OF_WEEK),
>            SUNDAY = next(DAY_OF_WEEK)
>   </eucode>
{{{

> - advanced C/API-interface functionality (WIN32/LINUX)

I don't know if it can be avoided, but library functions probably should 
not keep state information; that is one thing I realized after 
advocating an error-handling mechanism. It is also something that I am 
considering in my foreach library which if it is not very simple would 
require the keeping of state information.

If the ESL is to grow beyond the current Euphoria into a multi-threading 
version then keeping state information in library variables will be a 
last-resort mechanism because of race conditions and complications.

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> tommy online: http://users.telenet.be/tommycarlier
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