OpenEuphoria

Re: Optional "then" and "do"

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yah?o.c?m> May 15, 2008
• 1045 views

CChris wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> I certainly wouldn't agree with the latter.
> 
> See how much you have to write to share a state (as a sequence - no pointers)
> between two functions. You can pass {x1,x2,x3}, fine.. But when the sequence
> state is returned, you have to code
> x1=state[1]
> x2=sate[2]
> etc
> 
> while {x1,x2,x3}=state is clear enough.
> 
> Just one example out of many.
> 
> CChris
> 
> > --
> > 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.

I guess that we have to keep on disagreeing then.

--
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.