OpenEuphoria

Re: Str-Kat

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agric?lture.gouv.f?> May 30, 2008
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Shawn Pringle wrote:
> 
> Kat,
> 
> A EUPHORIA string is a sequence that contains integer
> values that each represent a character value.  EUPHORIA
> has a string type as much as C does.
> 
> A string is not dealt seperately as a special type and
> it doesn't need to be.
> 
> Unlike both BASIC and C though there are no special
> string ops that concatonate, determine the length, and
> copy.  In EUPHORIA you manipulate strings and arrays 
> the same way because they are the same.  They are all 
> sequences. And since sequence manipulation is strait 
> forward so is string manipulation. I wouldn't want 
> it to be any other way.
> 
> Shawn Pringle

Compare the memory overhead and performance hit that general sequences take when
compared to raw arrays of bytes/words/dwords in memory, and you will want to have
different operators and types.
The flexibility of sequences is wonderful. However, sequences of bytes/dwords
are a fairly common special case, and there is room for the processing speed and
memory footprint to be much, much more optimised.

CChris