OpenEuphoria

RE: Live Tutorial

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> Jan 22, 2006
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Lynn Kilroy wrote:
> I *can* see where you're trying to take it, however, and you are just as 
> clumsy as I am at tutoring.  This isn't a bad thing, really.  You are 
> quite skilled and very much love the language, and it shows.  It's just 
> like me, you expect a person to understand much more then they often do, 
> and so, like me, you often go over the heads of others.  I've said 
> things that were perfectly clear to me and watched people's faces screw 
> up in intense concentration as they tried to understand what I just 
> said.  It's all rather embarassing, really.  To make affairs more 
> confusing, traditional teaching methods and documentations tend to be 
> useless to me.  I learned BASIC from what was essentially a BASIC 
> dictionary.  I'm learning HTML essentially the same way {See 
> www.html-reference.com}.  As far as I can tell, there is no Euphoria 
> Dictionary anywhere.  Even if there was one, with the way you talk about 
> fixing standardized include files, I doubt it could ever really be 
> complete.  So no one ever completely understands Euphoria, just as no 
> one ever completely understands C, and there's no way to actually 
> compose a complete and thorough dictionary on Euphoria, and no one's 
> going to take the time to create such a dictionary for each include file 
> they write or rewrite.  So, my usual method is SOL.  Hence, I am stuck 
> spamming you with questions on even the most basic things because 
> there's no Error Dictionary, and no Dictionary pointing out things that 
> I may be doing wrong, and no Dictionary on Euphoria that I can readily 
> find.
> 

Well, did you take a look at the Language Definition
(http://www.rapideuphoria.com/refman_2.htm) and the Library Routines section
(http://www.rapideuphoria.com/library.htm) in the manual? I think it contains
what you want.

Regards, Alexander Toresson