OpenEuphoria

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• Posted by Mathew Hounsell <mat.hounsell at MAILEXCITE.COM> May 26, 1998
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[ Changing The Programs Own Code ]
Falkon wrote: "It seems it would be great for self-altering programs,
though...Programs that grow and evolve by modifying their code and rewriting
themselves based on circumstances...  Of course, that would be the interpreted
source, not a binded program...though that might be possible too..."
Brilliant Falkon. As Euphoria is bound to the interpreter, tacked on the end I
think. To create conditional compilations you could simplely bind your program
with the default settings and change it at will, creating patches would be easy
to. To RDS, maybe this is an expansion of bind too look into, patches.

[ Optimisation ]
Falkon wrote : "Since you can't use
        if ( s1 != {} ) then
to test for a null sequence, which of these methods is technically better?
        if ( length(s1) > 0 ) then
        if compare( s1, {} ) then
My guess would be length."
I think length would be more efficient.

[ command_line()   BUG!!! ]
Dave wrote : "You are guaranteed to get at least two sequences back from
command_line()"
Wrong. If you run EX or EXW then type in the file name command_line() contains
only the full path of the interpreter. I got caught by this as I couldn't
understood why the code crashed. RDS knows and intends to fix it in the next
release.

[ Disk Mag ]
To Stephen Spencer, May be some tutorials to help some one build different type
(eg Line, Date, Number) User input routine might be good, I may try and write it,
as people are always asking questions about it.

[ Slow Web Access ]
Try the Lynx web browser. Unfortunately it is probablely the redundant HTML
that's slowing loads down.

[ Bill of Rights ]
Terry Constant wrote : "It is not illegal, and never should be. The importance
of freedom of  expression, guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, is an overriding
concern, far more important than computer viruses. "
Not every country has a Bill of Right's.
Dear old Australia doesn't, in fact some of the rights we think we have we
don't, and for some strange reason the goverment didn't do anything with their
report that told them that. One bit of Australian trivia: Local Goverment
(Shires) are autonomous, you have basically no recourse unless it's illegal. This
is how our goverment seems to work.

[ Viruses ]
I have a HDD problem: BIOS does a quick check on HDD, before usually asking for
password, and hangs with HDD light on, but deactivating HDD and booting from a
floopy means the system works fine, except no HDD. Does that sound like a virus
anyone knows of. I really don't want to hae to format my drive if it's possible
to avoid, as I'll lose years of work.
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Sincerely,
Mathew Hounsell
Mat.Hounsell at mailexcite.com



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