Re: Decision on . or :
Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
>
> We have heard mainly from those opposing the . in favor of : ... I am going
> to step aside and I would like to propose that anyone who wishes for the .
> over
> the : speak up on this post. If no viable arguments exist for . over : in one
> weeks time, then we close the discussion and : stays.
>
Ya!!! :)
The IRC meeting was something I by chance heard about. The meeting was
announced
in a post a few minutes before the meeting started. I think the group of
EUPHORIA
programmers at the IRC meeting was not representative to those who post on the
forums. There were only six people in the meeting and most seemed relatively
new
at EUPHORIA. It seems to me, that people who come from a python, C++ or Java
background look at EUPHORIA's ':' delimiter and namespace and say 'how strange.'
To me, it is okay if EUPHORIA is different. Rob wants to let EUPHORIA grow into
something more. We could add all kinds of C++ kinds of things to EUPHORIA, and
keep changing it until will we have a non-ANSI compliant C++ compiler or we
could add features that do not exist in the other languages with a little
imagination.
The least interesting thing we can do is to change the syntax to look more like
java, python or c++.
Finally, I have to agree that a volunteer who has enough time on their hands
to think about changing ':' to '.' could be an aggregator. He could take all
the message contents and make a document about various threads that includes
other people's point of view so we do not
keep asking the same questions after so many months. We ask everyone to read
the "mutate EUPHORIA article" in the wiki page before asking or proposing
changes.
Shawn Pringle
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