OpenEuphoria

RE: A Problem with v2.4 (for Rob)#2

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> May 17, 2003
• 435 views

Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 May 2003 19:19:53 +0000, Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> >Yes, i agree a warning would be better and
> 
> > that seems to be the general opinion on the matter.
> ^^^^^
> 	Huhh!!??, I missed that. Let me remind you: you are wrong.
> 
> >  In my opinion, however,
> >i dont even want that  because if the programmer doesnt 
> >know that 
> >DoSomething()
> >is a different function call than
> >WX:DoSomething()
> 
> No. Derek picked this up far quicker than me.
> You are asking Euphoria to be changed for the benefit of programmers
> who are just too damn lazy to do what must be done to make their
> program work. And make it a thousand times more likely to put new
> unfathomable errors in new code.
> 
> What YOU cannot see is that
> DoSomething()
> and
> WX:DoSomething()
> is quite simply not enough for the interpreter to be *CONFIDENT* it is
> making the right choice; *CORRECTLY* it knows it may be wrong, and it
> says so.
> 
> Let me repeat this slowly. It is not whether the programmer knows what
> they mean, it is what the machine is *UNAMBIGUOUSLY* told.
> 
> If that means you have to edit lots of code, then guess what, you have
> to edit lots of code.
> 
> Life is full of pain, son, get over it.
> 
> Pete
> <starting a flame war, I know, but this is important, plus I'm right>
> 

Pete,

First off, i wasnt talking to you.

Second, if you cant see that
DoSomething()
is different then
WX:DoSomething()

then you also cant see that
DoSomething()
is different then
WX_DoSomething()

or is it that you cant read English perhaps?

I dont know about the interpreter, but i'm totally
confident that when i call DoSomething() i dont
want to call WX_DoSomething(), and the idea is to
*not* have to rename *anything*.
In computer science it's sometimes referred to as
"Reusable code".

Nice try, dad.


"It seems often perfectly, which its errors perfectly hide."
--Al Getz