OpenEuphoria

Re: Structures; etc.

• Posted by The Johnson Family <thedjs at INAME.COM> Jan 31, 2000
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I personally would like EU to be Object Oriented, and the fact that it isnt
is just about the only reason I still use Delphi/Object Pascal for much of
my programming work. If eu were object oriented, I would use it for just
about everything - Since I started OOP, I cant seem to stop programming like
that, even in non OOP languages!

Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Nelson <mike-nelson-ODAAT at WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 10:38 PM
Subject: Structures; etc.


> There seems to be a recurring demand for structures--in Euphoria terms,
> fixed-length sequences with type specified for each element and named
access
> to the elements, preferably with dot notation.
>
> I'm not sure I see the point in doing this if we are going to stop there.
> No doubt implementing structures in the Eu interpreter would require
> extensive reprogramming.  If Rob were to invest that much time and effort
> into redesigning the language, why only go half way to object orientation?
> Add access control, methods, and some form of inheritance and you have a
> true OOP language:  E++.  Is this the direction we want Euphoria to go?
>
> My inclination is to vote NO--and no one can accuse me of being anti-OOP.
> For those of us who want structures without having to hand code types for
20
> to 50 sequence elementsand want dot notation, how about a
> preprocessor--perhaps along the lines of David Cuny's Dot preprocessor.
>
> --Mike Nelson,
> author of Object Euphoria, a full-featured Java-style OOP system for
> Euphoria.
>
>