OpenEuphoria

registration and requests

• Posted by Carlos Valdes <cvaldes at DF.GOB.MX> Feb 11, 1999
• 483 views

Today´s sad story:
After almost two years using Euphoria I decided to register through
the web. I had not registered before because I considered some
registering options as expensive to the price of the package and the
cheap one, through the web,  difficult.
I was right. I got an automatic reply  saying that my address is not
my address.
Rob, you more than deserve your money, but this is frustrating, I
don´t want to keep trying, sending variations of the same tune, and
maybe some day getting registered. I wanted the download version
and no more.  :(

Now, I want to ask for something that I think is needed. Normally
when you want to do something zero or more times you use:

while x<10 do
.
. --code
.
end while

But when you want to execute a paragraph at least once, you use:

while 1 do
.
.   --code
.
    if x>10 then
        exit
    end if
end while

Why there is not something like:

repeat
.
.
.
until x>10    --condition tested at end of loop

Also I think that Euphoria objects and sequences are very flexible
and powerful, and for shure this is one of the main strengths of the
language, but there are times when you want to have fixed
structures that automatically complain if you violate content types
or sizes. In this particular case, structures or templates are really
needed (similarly to constants: individual elements that do not
change during the execution of the program. I would call them
atomic-structures).
Going back to the past, I think that expressions like:

seq[..5] and seq[6..]

meaning take the first 5 elements of seq and take from the 6th to the
end, respectively, give elegance to the language (although the first
does not save much keypresses).

Also, I want to thank all the participants in the list for the help
(although most of the time I am only an observer but learn through
the help you give to others) and the opportunity to learn with their
contributions and samples. You really do honor the name of the
language (by the way, it does not need to change, a language is
used because of its usefuness, expressiveness, and ease of use, not
because of its name), even with the permanent discussions and
disagreements. But remember, it is because we are all Euphoric!
(and I would like to be a registered one).

Greetings (y saludos a los muchos miembros de la lista que hablan
español).

Carlos Valdés
jcarlosvo at hotmail.com