OpenEuphoria

Re: Ideas for next Eu

• Posted by "Boehme, Gabriel" <gboehme at POSTOFFICE.MUSICLAND.COM> Nov 09, 1999
• 933 views

Pete King suggests:

>I would also like to see a further step... subscripting functions as
>though they are sequences. Like so:
>
>first_name=get_name(database)[1]
>
>This can of course be done with a seperate routine, but whats the point
>of duplicate program code? It only adds to file size.

Mmm...I guess I don't see any overriding need for subscripting of
expressions. It looks a tad goofy to me, and with multiple parameters or
complicated expressions it would obscure, rather than clarify, what was
going on. Shameless plug for my own idea, based on the above:

{first_name, last_name} = get_name(database)

Or something like that -- your given example, I fear, does not seem very
practical. Perhaps a better example might be a more persuasive argument for
your idea?

Speaking of a better example being more persuasive, here's another use for
my own idea which I would find *extremely* beneficial on a day-to-day
basis...

while 1 do
   {return_code, data} = get(input_file)
   if return_code = GET_SUCCESS then
      data = reformat(data)
      print(output_file, data)
   elsif return_code = GET_EOF then
      -- end of file
      exit
   else
      -- corrupted data file
      abort(13)
   end if
end while


Hep yadda,
Gabriel

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