OpenEuphoria

Re: Decision on . or :

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at ?owgar.?om> May 07, 2008
• 628 views

Shawn Pringle wrote:
> 
> The IRC meeting was something I by chance heard about.  The meeting was
> announced
> in a post a few minutes before the meeting started.

It was actually posted a day in advanced. When the meeting started, I posted a
message again letting everyone know it started. But, you are right, a day notice
was not enough. However, the meeting was prefixed with the fact that this is the
first time, not much notice was given and that the meeting was in no way binding,
that it was more of a trial run.

> 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.'

I do not think this is the case. The people who were speaking about . were long
time Euphoria programmers.
   
> The least interesting thing we can do is to change the syntax to look more
> like
> java, python or c++.

The goal was not to change it to look like another language.

> 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.

The discussion had to start to even know the pros/cons. Also, who has time? To
change : or a . is a 10 second job in the backend. That's no time requirement.
All it needed was discussion, which it got.

Now, I said I was not going to talk about . any more, and I am not. The
statements above were to justify the steps taken prior to and after the irc
meeting in question.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com