OpenEuphoria

Re: suggestion sequence section

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Feb 08, 2003
• 454 views

On 7 Feb 2003, at 21:16, C. K. Lester wrote:

>
> On Friday 07 February 2003 04:29 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > Doing that now, simple matches and tests for type. What is your
arguement
> > against my suggestion to include this form in the language, where it
could be
> > done faster?
>
> Well, my questions are:
>
> 1. would it be truly faster, and if so, how much faster?

I don't know.

> 2. would it be easier to code?

Not if you have the procedure already written.

> > > I think the results you want can be obtained, but maybe not the way
you want
> > > to obtain them...?
> >
> > That can be said for almost anything.
>
> Except goto's... ;)

Making every line a separate procedure works.

> > It's so good to know anything i
> > suggest will be shot down...
>
> The fact is, until I understand more clearly where you're coming from,
of
> COURSE I'm going to suggest alternate methods/algorithms.

The lines of examples i gave were clear enough, which of them did you not
understand? Oh, nevermind.

> I expect ANYBODY who
> asks a question about EUPHORIA on this list would be willing to accept
answers
> to the positive and/or negative, including suggestions for how to do
something
> differently than proposed. Since I wasn't clear on what you were
currently
> doing, I offered a "work around" for the moment. You obviously didn't
need that.
> Shall I assume in the future that your questions are rhetorical, because
nobody
> can seem to offer you a pleasant enough answer.

You wouldn't believe the crap i get for making suggestions.
me: lets add a line to the notice to inform users about the whatever when
that happens

them: no, i don't want to, you sit in here and answer them when they make
the effort to come in and ask you about it every time the service is used.

me: there is a bug in services
them: no it's your mirc and windows computer
<flame war ensues for 6 months>
somebody_else: there is a bug in services, i use nix
them: oh, there is a bug in servcies, thanks, somebody_else, i'll check it
out
now!

> > saves me from expecting anything till next year
> > when someone else suggests it and it's accepted at that time.
>
> How about in the future you contact someone on the list and ask them to
post a
> suggestion for you? Then maybe you'll see all your wonderful ideas come
to
> fruition!

Tried that. When it wasn't mangled in the in-between, it was generally
accepted. Goto <flame war ensues for 6 months> above.

Kat