OpenEuphoria

Re: Namespaces

• Posted by "Fam. Nieuwenhuijsen" <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL> Oct 24, 2000
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> The reason for *having* to return a result have to do with the parser not
> having more than 1 token look ahead. Jiri suggested using (), like so:
>
>    return ( expr ) -- return expr
>    return -- no explicit return value
>
> but that would require, on average, more work for the coder, and more
> chances for typos. So for now, I'm opting for a required value.

David, why not go for the ICON style returning of values:

def match (x, s)
    for index = 1 to length(x) - length(x) do
        if equal (x, s[index..index+length(x)]) then
            return index
        end if
    end for
end def

A normal call would just return the first matching value, however, imagine
what the 'each' keyword does:

printf(1, "Found match as %d", {each match(x,s)})

More readable, look at this approach:

for each match (x, s) as pos do
    s[pos] = '!'
end for

What do you all think about this feature ?

Ralf N.
nieuwen at xs4all.nl