OpenEuphoria

Re: QBasic --> Euphoria (again)

• Posted by "Carl R. White" <C.R.White at SCM.BRAD.AC.UK> Sep 01, 1998
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, jiri babor wrote:

> Ralf, you wrote:
>
> function abs (object x)
>     return x < 0 * -2 + x
> end function
>
> Did you not really mean something like
>
> function abs(object x)
>     return -2*x*(x<0)+x   -- or perhaps (1-2*(x<0))*x
> end function

I'll have to get in on this one :)

function sgn(object x)
    return (x>0)-(x<0) -- or compare({x},{0})
end function

function abs(object x)
    return x*sgn(x)
end function

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