OpenEuphoria

some suggestions

• Posted by Jareth <jareth at GMX.DE> Oct 12, 2000
• 565 views

12.10.2000 11:38:04

Hi there!

Just some questions/comments/suggestions concerning the Euphoria to C
translator:
1. Why an Euphoria to C translator and no "real" compiler ? ( or maybe Euphoria
to nasm ?!? )
2. What about droping all system-dependant stuff from the translator and
generate the complete
required (Ansi) C sourcecode, so that the translated program would
        compile under any system
with an (Ansi) C compiler ??? ( maybe with some extensions to Euphoria
        to link code from other languages ? )
I would love to see my little ( console only ) Euphoria programs run
        under BeOS !!!
3. ... or an JIT compiler ??? ( No separate compiling required ! )


A suggestion for Euphoria itself: Euphoria needs CLASSES !!!

that could look like:

<--- snip --->

class CVector
 atom x, y, z

 procedure CVector() -- the constructor
  x = 0
  y = 0
  z = 0
 end procedure

 procedure setVector( atom x_, atom y_, atom z_ )
  x = x_
  y = y_
  z = z_
 end procedure

 procedure scale( atom f )
  x *= f
  y *= f
  z *= f
 end procedure
end class

CVector vec
vec.setVector( 1, 2, 3 )
vec.scale( 4.37 )

<--- snip --->

or like in VB ( classes look very much like modules ):

file1:

<--- snip --->

class CVector.e -- like include, reads the file CVector.e

CVector vec
vec.setVector( 1, 2, 3 )
vec.scale( 4.37 )

<--- snip --->

file CVector.e:

<--- snip --->

 atom x, y, z

 procedure CVector() -- the constructor
  x = 0
  y = 0
  z = 0
 end procedure

 procedure setVector( atom x_, atom y_, atom z_ )
  x = x_
  y = y_
  z = z_
 end procedure

 procedure scale( atom f )
  x *= f
  y *= f
  z *= f
 end procedure

<--- snip --->

And finally:

Euphoria IS fast! Even if it's interpreted!
Euphoria IS simple! Hope it will not be overloaded with keywords, options, etc.
in future ( except for classes of course! )
Keep it lean!
Euphoria IS kewl! I propably will register !!!

Jareth