OpenEuphoria

Re: if statement not working

• Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Mar 23, 2002
• 994 views

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:43:18 -0800, kbochert at ix.netcom.com wrote:

>
>You wrote on 3/23/02 10:17:33 AM:
>
>>Pete
>>PS if Rob completely annihilates all index bounds checking, which I
>>doubt, then fine, I have the source so I can put it back!
>>
>
>Me too! But it would be nice to be able to respond to a bounds
>violation with something other than a fatal abort.
>
Agreed, ability to catch it would be a nice plus, ignoring it
wholesale not. However, not catched, it must give a fatal abort.

I liken this argument to swatting a fly with a howitzer.

It  *IS* difficult telling the dumb computer what you really want:

	firstnonspace=1
	while x[firstnonspace]=' ' do firstnonspace+=1 end while
	while 1 do
		i = match({' ',9},x[firstnonspace..length(x)])
		if i then 
			i+=firstnonspace-1 
			x=x[1..i-1]&x[i+1..length(x)]
		end if
...
But that is *EXACT*; put a fudge factor in there & I'm really lost.

I'll second any motion for shorthand length(X) but I have yet to see
one which passes muster.

I'll accept, if s="123" then slice operands could make sense in the
bounds -3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3 (if agreed handling worked out),
*BUT NOT* s[37789456..-327] blithely returning {}. **NONSENSE**

Oh dear, and I tried so hard to stay clear of all this

Pete
PS. I've said before: code it & get it working in euphoria,
not wait for/beg Rob to do it in C/v2.4.

If not, why not?