OpenEuphoria

Re: commabominations

• Posted by chris bensler <bensler at Mailops.Com> Jan 20, 2001
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>When I run into this sort of situation, I just add a dummy item to the end
>of the list:
>
>constant
>  alpha=120,
>  beta=26,
>  gamma=1382,
>  JUNK = 0
>
>I don't think it's necessary to change the syntax for something like this.
>
>-- David Cuny

I don't think you'll get much better than how it is now..
I think David is right, just add a dummy variable to the end.

The real reason I'm writing though, is I have often thought that those darned
dummies
should be standardized. Most practiced coders do, but to maintain a standard, it
would be nice to have these predefined by EU.

EI have JUNK atoms, and BIN sequences, as part of the vocab..
This would help maintain readability. I see many people using dummies speckling
their code. Defining a new one for each instance that they need it. Makes it
difficult to
read their code.
I think the major concern with EU, is ease of coding, hence readability. By
having
these defined in the language people would become accustomed to using them. And
would save others a lot of headaches trying to debug someone elses code.

A trivial thing but, I think it would be of great help. Also save a couple of
lines here and
there.

Just a thought.....

Chris



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