OpenEuphoria

Re: Strings

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Feb 18, 2006
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Jason Gade wrote:
> This is just a mental exercise, but something else occurs to me. Euphoria uses
> bit-flags to determine the type of data that it is working with -- a pointer
> to a sequence or a double, or a 31-bit integer. See
> <a
> href="http://www.listfilter.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=A&fromYear=A&toMonth=A&toYear=A&postedBy=Robert+Craig&keywords=%22bit+fiddling%22">http://www.listfilter.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=A&fromYear=A&toMonth=A&toYear=A&postedBy=Robert+Craig&keywords=%22bit+fiddling%22</a>
> 
> Euphoria *could* use bit flags to say "pointer to string".

Oh, and it looks like Euphoria *could* offer the programmer a way to check
whether a variable has been initialized.

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