OpenEuphoria

RE: a thought about sequences

• Posted by Andreas Rumpf <pfropfen at gmx.net> Aug 17, 2003
• 399 views

Andy Serpa wrote:
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> Andreas Rumpf wrote:
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> > A sequence can be everything: a tree, a table, a stack, a string, a 
> > structure, an array of structures, etc, etc. While this is great, it has 
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> > (like everything in life) a drawback: 
> > Look at your source code, how often do you read 'sequence'? The word 
> > becomes meaningless after some time. It is like in real languages: A 
> > word that does mean everything is meaningless. I think, that's one 
> > reason (among others) why other languages don't have a "one-does-it-all" 
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> > type.
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> First, you say you want a choice in the way you do things.  Now, 
> Euphoria gives you too many choices -- it is too flexible.  Yes, 
> everything in life has its drawbacks, but some of them are well worth 
> it...
> 
I am not against sequences. It just seems OpenEu's idea of 'sequence of 
integer' is a good one.