OpenEuphoria

RE: match() (not short, he he)

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> May 27, 2003
• 409 views

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> 
> Well that seems to be true with nearly all previous suggestions. 
> However,
> one of my bosses used to say "Trends are not Destiny".
> 
> I guess what we are really saying is
> 1) that it would be nice if Euphoria would return a value, say 0, for
> zero-length LHS parameters in match() rather than crashing.
> 2) If the LHS parameter of match() is an atom, treat it as if it was a
> single item sequence.
> 
> Neither of these would break existing code.
> 
> ----------------
> cheers,
> Derek Parnell
> 
> 

Yes, i have been saying that all along 

I'd even be happy to see #1 alone.


If something makes the language better without breaking
existing code, why not use it?


Take care for now,
Al