Re: registration and requests
- Posted by Don Groves <groves at ACM.ORG> Feb 15, 1999
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At 10:26 2/15/99 +0000, Bown, John wrote: >> >>> Why there is not something like: >> >>> repeat >>> . >>> . >>> . >>> until x>10 --condition tested at end of loop >> >>Euphoria tries to be a "minimal" language, where >>we avoid adding language features for things that can be handled >>almost as well by existing features. > >I agree with the sentiments but this conflicts with some of the >realities of version 2.1 ... the 2.0 version allowed addition, >subtraction and so on so why were the += / -= operators added ? They >certainly weren't *needed*. From my perspective, the += style operators save a lot of typing, which cuts down on errors (for me, anyway . "long_variable_name += 1" is much easier to type (and read) than "long_variable_name = long_variable_name + 1", IMHO. -- Don Groves