OpenEuphoria

RE: Declaring a Function Before it is used

• Posted by "Ricardo Forno" <rmforno at tutopia.com> Oct 31, 2003
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Euphoria is easier than you think, believe me.
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Michelle Rogers <michellerogers at bellsouth.net>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Declaring a Function Before it is used


>
>
> 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
>
>
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:51:40 -0500, Robert Craig
> > <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
> >
> > >In practice, people would simply arrange their
> > >routines in random order,
> >
> >
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