OpenEuphoria

Comparing Sequences

• Posted by Michael Nelson <MichaelANelson at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> Oct 06, 2000
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Rob,

I feel that your last remark to David Cuny was inappropriate--an attack on
the person rather than a dispute about ideas.

In terms of the substance of the dispute, I rather like Derek's suggestion
to silently transmute comparison operators to calls to compare() when used
on sequences in if and while statements.  This would be a special rule,
admittedly--but would be symmetric to the special short-circuiting rule.  No
existing code would be broken, but an alternative syntax that many users
prefer would become available.  I don't know if I'd want to go along with
Derek's suggestions for further change down the line, but I wouldn't mind if

 if "Help" = "Help" then

were legal Eu syntax.  Also I would like to see greater() and less() to go
along with equal().

-- Mike Nelson