OpenEuphoria

Re: registration and requests

• Posted by "Boehme, Gabriel" <gboehme at MUSICLAND.COM> Feb 16, 1999
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Grape Vine <chat_town at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>>>>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)

With +=, -=, etc., always remember the following phrase:

"If you don't like them, just don't use them!"

<grin>

Gabriel Boehme