OpenEuphoria

Re: Small feature request for future EU versions

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Oct 19, 2004
• 670 views

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:18:27 -0400, Lucius Hilley
<l3euphoria at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> From: "Derek Parnell"
> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 9:36 PM
> Subject: RE: Small feature request for future EU versions
> > It seems that you would like equality (and relationship comparisions)
> > implemented as built-in functions (eg. equal(), compare() ) and
> > sequence operations performed by operators ('=', '<', etc...)
> >
> > Whereas I'd prefer the reverse situation. I'd like relationship
> > comparisions to use operators and sequence operations to use built-in
> > functions.
> >
> > I'd prefer that ...
> >
> >   cond1 = (seq1 = seq2)
> >
> > to be interpreted as ...
> >
> >   if the contents of seq1 and the contents of seq2 are identical then
> >   assign 'true' to cond1 otherwise assign 'false' to cond1.
> >
> 
> I agree with you here.
> if (identical) then
>   TRUE
> else
>   FALSE
> end if

I agree, logically it should work like that.

I think that the behaviour of the 'if' construct should be changed, to
automatically use equal() to check if the phrase seq1 = seq2 is used
within an if statement.

But... ONLY the if statement.

-- 
MrTrick