OpenEuphoria

RE: if statement not working

• Posted by bensler at mail.com Mar 22, 2002
• 457 views

Kat wrote:
> 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
> 

That's not natural behaviour.
When you tell me to to return 100kb of this file, I'll tell you it's not 
100kb.
I won't give you the file padded with.. what SHOULD it be padded with?

If you told me to give you 100kb of this file, or whatever I can if it's 
not that big, then I would give you about 10kb of data.

If you told me I MUST return 100kb from this file, I would then proceed 
to ask what I should append to the data.

Chris