OpenEuphoria

Re: registration and requests

• Posted by Don Groves <groves at ACM.ORG> Feb 15, 1999
• 459 views

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