OpenEuphoria

Re: registration and requests

• Posted by Grape Vine <chat_town at HOTMAIL.COM> Feb 15, 1999
• 481 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

I would prefer to see it like
"long_variable_name + 1"

that is very easy to read and to understand..(fo mer...remember I am a
inbread redneck)

Grape

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