OpenEuphoria

Re: Ken's abrasiveness

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at g?ail.?om> May 29, 2008
• 737 views

ken mortenson wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > your remarks still seemed to show a fair amount of ignorance
> 
> I only hope that you will be kind enough to point out my ignorance when
> it is on display (rather than claiming me ignorant without evidence that
> I might then have the opportunity to refute.)

First, I'd like to commend you on that edit, where you left out the last
part:  "with respect to euphoria."

Please note that I'm not trying to be pejorative when I say ignorance.  Just
pointing out that by your comments, my impression is that of someone not
overly familiar with the language.  I'd also say that this is the right
place to get answers to any questions you might have.  

Looking at your recent posting history:

>> rid_dbOpen has a value of 2, which seems a little odd to me unless
>> part of some vector table, but I don't know the internals of Euphoria.

>> Namespaces can be used to hide globals of included files if I understand the
>> discussion I've read so far in the other threads.

This next example is really identical to a for statement:

for Index = 7 to -14.2 by -1.2
  -- ...
end for

>> I wouldn't be adverse to an optional from/by
>> Loop from 7 by -1.2
>>   if (Index<-14.2) exit
>> End Loop

Most code I've encountered follow this rule:

>> Most functions and variables should not be public and their scope should
>> be limited to the file they are declared in.

> I'm afraid I can't reciprocate, because that would be abrasive.  So I won't
> mention the 3 points of ignorance you displayed in this post.

Guess I'll be left in bliss, then. :)

Matt