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Interesting heads-up, MTS, i may get an idea or two to use in Eu. See 3rd 
paragraph herein. What alarms me, frankly, is that one of the help "books"
online
was written by someone with an email addy of microsoft.com.

/me waits for the smart ones here to give an opinion on Icon..... I notice the 
possibility Icon could have been written in Eu, but with more user-friendly
features,
like a smarter interpreter. 

 http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
 http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/icon/

Something else i noticed is something i asked about earlier, used in mirc, the 
ability to execute vars (as if they were a commandline statement, function, or 
procedure), apparently, *if* the var content is already pre-referenced in main
and not
coded into the program. I think Eu could do this if the globals vars were 
referenceable by locked memory pointers, and fed thru a backdoor to a new 
instance of the interpreter called with the variable contents as the program to
exec.
Or preferably, resetting the existing instance of the interpreter, storing
current state
to a stack, to allow better recursion. The required vars used in the exec'd var
can
be checked, and only those passed to the new instance, to save time and memory. 
Have you given any more thought to this, Robert?


Kat

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