Re: Changes to Euphoria
MBianchi wrote:
>
> I was first attracted to Eu for speed, and for the ability to use an
> interpreter
> *and* a real compiler, but the most important feature of the language soon
> became
> its 'devotion' to sequences.
>
Me too!
> This made me (erroneously?) think that Eu could have its place in vector
> languages,
> like APL, J, K, Q etc. etc., with its own character and extentions toward
> procedural
> languages, but nevertheless in the array languages pool.
>
I'm sorry. I've played with many, many languages but all of the ones you listed,
I have not. Honestly, I do not know what a vector language is.
> Reading past threads I noticed that Rob himself had a deep experience with
> APL,
> so some sort of inheritance of good ideas from it could be a supposition even
> more reasonable.
>
> In all recent discussions I saw on Euforum, I did not see any proposal for
> better
> sequence ops, or some improvements on sequencing in itself though, but many,
> reasonable or not, I'm not in the position of expressing an honest opinion,
> about procedural structures.
There is a new library called sequence.e which contains many functions that work
on sequences. I am unsure if any of those would be what you are thinking, since I
am not experienced in vector languages.
> Just out of curiosity, am I totally wrong in thinking Eu in the vector
> language
> family, or are Eu sequences already at the best we can achieve (really, no
> flame
> intended at all), or ...?
>
Can someone else answer this who understands vector languages?
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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com
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