OpenEuphoria

Re: Ken's abrasiveness

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at y??oo.com> May 29, 2008
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c.k.lester wrote:
> 
> Kat wrote:
> > Jason Gade wrote:
> > > I think there should be a compelling reason to add anything --feature or
> > > new
> > > built-in-- to the interpreter, and a broad consensus as well. Not just
> > > "because
> > > it's cool."
> > Jason, CK is adding repeat_str() to Eu, and Eu doesn't have a string type.
> 
> No I'm not.
> 

I was browsing the svn repository and I couldn't find anything...

Sequences do 99.9% the job of strings, and they do better than what passes for a
string in C.

I think their can be improvement, and it has certainly been mentioned with
regards to unicode strings. It's just that I don't think we know how to do it
"the right way".

I certainly don't know how, even though I've thought about it from time to time.

For me, Euphoria has two types -- atom and sequence, and of course object which
encompasses them both (and is therefore not really separate). Integer is just a
special case of atom it is included for performance reasons/special purposes.
String as a special case of sequence would be okay, if needed.

But again, it needs to be designed and integrated somehow.

Now I'm just rambling. Sorry.

--
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.