OpenEuphoria

Re: NO!!!!

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 08, 2001
• 462 views

Hi Everyone,

I'd be more than happy to take ideas and submissions for Euphoria Coding
Standards. I'm trying to put one together right now for use with Win32lib
but the ESL could use it too.

----- Original Message -----
From: "sephiroth _" <euman2376 at yahoo.com>

> What have you DONE to Win32lib?!?!?! Look at that code! It looks like
> someone shrouded...no, scrambled the code and tried to put it back
> together!

Thank you - I tried very hard to make it obscure.

Not really. I wrote a utility (eucompress.exw) that takes any euphoria file
and tries to reduce its size by stripping comments and unrequired
whitespace. If I can be bothered, I'll go the next step and remove
unrequired linefeeds too. I was going to rename identifiers to smaller ones
but debugging would then be just too hard.

The real code is in win32lib_full.ew. This contains better whitespace usage
and comments and the library documentation.

> In my entire life, I have not SEEN such bad style!

Still new to programming then are you? 

> This library is incompatible with earlier versions.

So? No one promised compatibility, in fact, until v1.0 we are warning people
that there are going to be minimal attempts to be backward compatibile. We
won't try to be incompatible, but if a better way is discovered to do
something, then it might be put in even if it will "break" existing code.

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cheers,
Derek Parnell