OpenEuphoria

Re: Standardized Euphoria

• Posted by duke normandin <dnormandin at bsdrocksperlrolls.com> Dec 24, 2006
• 708 views

Chris Bensler wrote:
> 
> Ray Smith wrote:
> > 
> > cklester wrote:
> > > 
> > > Robert Craig wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I don't think you should change the existing standard .e
> > > > files in a way that will cause existing programs to break.
> > > 
> > > True. Instead, release a "Standard Libraries Package v2.0."
> > > 
> > > All new programs can use this new library, and the old one can be
> > > phased out or whatever.
> > 
> > 
> > I agree 100%.
> > Only after "most" people are using the new library should there be any
> > thought
> > 
> > about breaking backward compatibility. 
> > 
> > Ray Smith
> > <a href="http://RaymondSmith.com">http://RaymondSmith.com</a>
> 
> 
> "1. Besides additional functionality, I would prefer to redesign/reorganize
> the
> existing libs. Would this be acceptable to people?
> 
> The new libs would not be compatible with the RDS libs but they would include
> the same functionality, plus much more. The alternative is to just build upon
> the existing libs, though I strongly beleive that we would be better off if
> they were reorganized. Now that Eu supports include subfolders, I do have a
> way for 'legacy' code that uses rds libs to be compatible with the new libs,
> since that would of course be a concern. This plan has actually been on the
> backburner for many years because Euphoria didn't support include subfolders
> until v3."
> 
> I'm too tired to try and find a different way to explain the same thing.
> Please read the thread again more thouroughly.

I bet you are!!

Could it be that Euphoria after all these years, has reached a crossroad? A
"defining moment" as the famous Dr. Phil puts it?

That happened in the Perl world between Perl4 and Perl5 -- and soon again
with the upcoming Perl6. Some things got broke, but that was the price for
moving on. Anybody *use* that old DOS stuff any more?

I'm too new to Euphoria to pop-off too much, but you have my "go-for-it"
vote!  ( he mumbles: Gosh I hope that this doen't mean I *have* to learn OOP )
;)
--
duke