OpenEuphoria

Re: Call for Opinions

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> May 22, 2005
• 426 views

On Sat, 21 May 2005 20:09:30 -0700, Mario Steele
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:

>Problem is Pete, yes, struct in that example is declared as MyStruct.  HOWEVER,
>what about type-casting?
Afaik, Eu does not have, need, or want type-casting.

>Example of Type Casting:
<snip>

>If we went the way you suggest, then this would become obsolete, as
>sub-classing
>couldn't be controled.
I don't understand, did you mean:.

if platform() = 3 then
   MyClassA MyNewVar
   MyNewVar@new({1,2,3})
else
   MyClassB MyNewVar
   MyNewVar@new({1,2,3,4})
end if

Why would @ be better than = ?

> And we're back to having the same problem as we do now
>with Regular Euphoria, as unable to dynamically include diffrent files, based
>on
>platform, only in a Object refrence.
I'm sure eu.ex can be modified to handle platform-dependent includes,
eg:

include.WIN32 file.exw
include.LINUX file.exu

If you are going to have platform-dependent classes, you'd need to
invent a similar scheme.

A better example might be:

class MyClass...
	WIN32.new(...
	LINUX.new(...
end class

function f(object a)
	a = new(blah,blah)
end function

MyClass MyNewVar

f(MyNewVar)

which brings me back to my original question, why would the above
scheme not work as well as a@new(blah,blah) would?

Pete