OpenEuphoria

Re: left, right? head, tail? which one?

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yaho?.?om> Apr 25, 2008
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CChris wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > I agree that people coming to Euphoria aren't necessarily absolute newbies
> > to
> > programming, and that there are probably better systems out there for people
> > who are absolute newbies.
> > 
> > Of course, I don't see the relevance of the comment with regards to the
> > quoted
> > section.
> > 
> 
> The section mentioned that which routines to have and how to name them should
> take the learning curve for newbies into account. To which I'm replying that
> these are not the primary newcomers to Eu, and that, as a consequence, taking
> these needs into account wasn't the right way to go imho. Is that irrrelevant,
> really?
> 
> CChris

No, I think it's relevant, just that your position wasn't very clear to me.
(Hint: I'm agreeing with your basic premise).

Some of these forms already have an idiom in Euphoria (left, right). The pad and
trim stuff might be useful, I'm not sure. I kinda agree with Matt up above.

Jeremy, have you looked into Kat's strtok library?

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.