OpenEuphoria

Re: if statement not working

• Posted by Graeme <graemeburke at hotmail.com> Mar 22, 2002
• 543 views

>I just tripped against this stupid restriction again last night. I've
written a function called 
>begins() to help me out, but it ain't pretty.
>
>   if begins(s, t) then ...
>
>I originally wrote:
>
>   if equal(s[1..length(t)], t) then ...
>
>but this fails whenever s is shorter than t. 




Yeah, and I hate having to press enter at the end of the
line, it really annoys me. Rob can you fix this or I want my
money back.....


But seriously, having the interpreter return a valid result 
from accessing non-existant data is just way stupid.


Graeme