OpenEuphoria

Re: voting on GOTO

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowg?r.co?> Jun 05, 2008
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Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> 
> As I recall, the slogan on the Euphoria webpage says "Just say NO to
> complicated
> programming languages!" Does GOTO not complicate things? I couldn't possibly
> imagine it would make Euphoria any simpler. We need to maintain that
> simplicity.
> 

Look at the code in PCRE, as mentioned already and then see how goto would
greatly simplify things.

> On a more general note, I think we're moving way too fast on implementing new
> "features" in Euphoria. Just because we can add a feature, doesn't mean we
> should.
> I don't want to see Euphoria start Jumping the shark[1], and I feel it is
> moving
> in that direction.

Actually, for the feature set we've added we've been moving pretty slowly.
Things have been discussed to great lengths on the dev list before we even think
about proposing things here. In less the last 20 days nearly 1,000 (literally)
messages have been exchanged on the dev list. Many ideas adopted, many canned,
many that were good but slated for the future.

Everything that has been implemented thus far have been requests many years old.
Is it bad that these requests many years old that have been discussed high and
low are being implemented finally or implemented in the 4.0 release?

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com