OpenEuphoria

Re: Declaring a Function Before it is used

• Posted by "Michelle Rogers" <michellerogers at bellsouth.net> Oct 31, 2003
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wow..I didn't realize that I could join this list and so quickly caues such
a "stir" over a matter that I posted about.  heh..

although, honestly, I imagine the reason that this is causing such
controversy is becaue this is the one major flaw that I can see that
Euphoria has.

I think that was someone suggested (although I forgot who and I've already
deleted by now) was a good idea...to add a statement near the top to say
whether you want this feature to be used in  your programming, or not.  That
way, at least everyone would have a choice.  That way, the ones who wanted
to work on small programs could leave this off and wouldn't have a problem.
But, those of us who wanted to make more complicated programs would be able
to do it with this language, as well.  Otherwise, it looks like I  have to
finish teaching myself C/C++ to be able to do some of the things I'm going
to need to do.

But, maybe that's logical? Maybe you have to sacrifice some of the power
(i.e forward referencing functions) when you use an easier language, like
Euphoria?  When you think about that, it makes sense.  I guess we shouldn't
be expecting to be able to do as much with an easier language.  Much
like...you can find editors that will create tables and t hings for you in
HTML, that are easier than figuring out the code.  But, I never use them,
because while, yes, they are easier...you have to only use what is
prewritten into them.  So, you can't have as much variation as when you code
it out, yourself.  Maybe that's how we should be looking at this instead.
If we don't expect as much from an easier language, like Euphoria, and only
use it for "easier" programming tasks, then we won't be as disappointed to
discover things that are beyond its capability, like forward referencing
structures.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Lomax" <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: Declaring a Function Before it is used


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> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:51:40 -0500, Robert Craig
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> >In practice, people would simply arrange their
> >routines in random order,
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