OpenEuphoria

Re: Optional "then" and "do"

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo??om> May 15, 2008
• 1006 views

Fernando Bauer wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > 
> > I mean, we may as well write
> > for(i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
> > /* do something */
> > }
> > 
> > Which certainly has its own elegance, but it isn't Euphoria.
> 
> Agreed. But I'm sure that any Euphoria programmer would understand my example.
> The difference is minimal, just other characters (already used) for the same
> token and the advantage is: less keywords to know and to parse. You could call
> it a Euphoria dialect. All things change and evolve, even if we don't want.
> A computer language should also obey this natural principle. One form to
> evolve
> is creating mutations, which in this case is a dialect. Some modifications in
> Eu 4.0 are more profound than these ones.
> Finally, your example uses a different syntax and semantics, and not every
> Euphoria
> programmer would understand it, so IMHO it's not a Euphoria dialect.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for your reply!
> - Fernando

Well, I can understand a lot of things, but some of these examples are jarring.

One of the things that I like about Euphoria is that it accomplishes the
relatively difficult goal of reading very similarly to natural English without
being overly wordy. I think that it strikes a happy medium.

--
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.