OpenEuphoria

Re: The Py feeling & Euphoria Compiler Feature Questions.

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Oct 26, 2000
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Ralf wrote:


>  1) First of all, are you planning of doing anything on
> the optimization part ?

Until the code stabilizes, I'm not going to do much in terms of
optimizations. The speed at this point is actually suprisingly good. But
yes, it's on the "to do" list.

>  2) I love the OO approach, and the Else clause for all
> kinds of non-ending loops. (brilliant)

Thanks, but I can't take credit for any of it. The OOP comes right out of
JavaScript, and the Else clause is from Python.

>  3) Is overloading of routines legal, and if so or if so
> not, how does it deal with this ? Especially when
> dealing with routine-id-variables.

In the last release, you could redefine defs. In the new version, I've
removed that capability. Could you give me some example of what you want to
do?

>  4) Are you going to introduce labelled exits, and
> labelled statement blocks?

The current implementation method makes that difficult, or I'd do it.

> 5) If not, could I convince you to at least add the option
> to jump out of a number of statement blocks?

I've got an interesting idea that I'll probably steal from ABC that *should*
take care of those sorts of problems.

> 6) Now you have a full working OO model, are you planning
> to redo Win32lib?

No, that's a major job with dubious benefits, and I'd rather work on
wrapping GTK+ (in Euphoria) than rehashing Win32Lib. I'm pretty curious to
see what Derek has done to restucture the code...

But I will hack it so you can run Win32Lib from Py.

> 7) Are you going to offer a run time py exector that we
> can link to in our own Euphoria programs ?

It's low on the priority list, but I'll keep it in mind. I'll be adding an
'eval' routine that you could use as a hook.

You *can* run pi.ex to create a wrapper for existing Euphoria libraries, so
going the other way is trivial.

> 8) Are you going to rewrite Ox in Py ?

No. Work fine as it is. Why redo it?

> 9) Are you going to rewrite Ox as an Ox file ?

No. Works fine as it is. Why redo it? 

> 10) How do the sequence operators and the
> print () and get () work with the association-lists ?

Good idea. All the i/o routines need to be fixed, probably next week at
earliest.

Thanks for the feedback!

-- David Cuny