OpenEuphoria

Re: if statement not working

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Mar 22, 2002
• 556 views

On 22 Mar 2002, at 23:24, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graeme" <graemeburke at hotmail.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:20 PM
> Subject: Re: if statement not working
> 
> 
> > >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.....
> >
> 
> Thanks for those encouraging words. I feel much better now that I realise I
> must
> not desecrate the temple of Euphoria.
> 
> > But seriously, having the interpreter return a valid result
> > from accessing non-existant data is just way stupid.
> >
> 
> Graeme, you are absolutely correct.

So if i were to ask you to return all 100K bytes of this email, you'd land in a 
mental institution? Eu would, figuratively speaking.

Kat