OpenEuphoria

Re: Re[2]: (Another) (small) Eu 2.5 feature request.

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Sep 24, 2004
• 472 views

> > Really? So there's no pattern whatsoever to the array? Can you expand
> > that description?
> 
> I used getxml() for years to extract freeform unstructured data from
> sequences, like this:
> 
> <h1>Cat Stevens </h1> <fld01>Cat Stevens</fld01> <br>
> <fld29> </fld29> <fld18> </fld18> <br>
> 1. <defblk> <Syntax>propnoun,sing</Syntax>=20
> <Semantic>per+male</Semantic> <def>a singer and songwriter in the USA;
> wrote "Baby It's A Wild World" and "Lady D'Arbanville" for the actor and=
> =20
> model Patti D'Arbanville.</def> </defblk> <br>
> 
> or this:
> 
> <h1>cat </h1> <fld01>cat</fld01> <br>
> <fld18>catty,cattier,cattiest,cattily,cattiness,cattish</fld18> <br>
> <fld29>cats,catting,catted</fld29> <br>
> <snip>
> 2. <defblk> <fld20>03</fld20> <Syntax>noun,sing</Syntax>
> <Semantic>real+animal</Semantic> <def>a small, lithe, soft-furred animal=
> =20
> (<altname>Felis cattus </altname>) of this family, domesticated since
> ancient times and often kept as a pet or for killing mice</def> </defblk> <=
> br>
> 
> 
> Kat=0F

Interesting... (sorry, can't quite read it properly, all these damned =20's...)

My point is, despite the fact that Euphoria *can* hold this
unstructured data very easily...

As I have found many times, most of my programming errors are caused
by unexpected non-homegenity (I've made a mistake in subscripting, or
data operations).

Most programming tasks and most programmers need to use data that is
largely homogenous... something that an improved typing mechanism
would greatly help, especially for diagnosing errors.

-- 
MrTrick