OpenEuphoria

RE: Anyone done anything with the Euphoria Source Code?

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at localnet.com> Jan 19, 2002
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David Cuny wrote:
> Perhaps the folk who have the source could get together and puzzle out a 
> 
> single feature? I'm thinking:
> 
>   integer a = 12, b, c = 22
> 
> might be a good start?
> 

David:
  I'am afraid that is more than I could handle with my
  limited understanding of the code today.
  I don't think it will be that easy because you have
  to test to be sure the user is initializing with
  proper type of data and do a lot of type checking, let alone
  the parsing for atoms, integers, sequences, etc.
  Then you have to stiched that all into to the code in the
  proper places by guessing what the code does.
  I'am still trying to figure out how the code works without
  changing it too much.
  I think a major problem was that the code was first developed
  using the watcom compiler which uses OS2's LE format when every
  other compiler these days uses COFF or PE format, that's why the
  code has to be adjusted for every different compiler. It would be
  much easier to maintain the code on a different compiler.
  Watcom may have been the best compiler in it's day but that was
  when there were no good fast graphics libraries or good DOS
  extenders. There are some errors that are generated
  when using watcom, like exiting a function and not always doing a
  return; that can be eliminated by using a #pragma that is
  available in MS, DJGPP, and GNU "C" but not in watcom.
  I'am not a professional programmer, so maybe my opion of watcom
  is not correct, but I don't think I would want to use it to try
  to build code to port easly to other platform unless I wanted to
  port it OS2.
Bernie