OpenEuphoria

RE: a thought about sequences

• Posted by Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com> Aug 17, 2003
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Andreas Rumpf wrote:
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> 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...
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> I am not against sequences. It just seems OpenEu's idea of 'sequence of 
> integer' is a good one.
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I agree with that -- I already agreed with that.  The type system needs 
improvement, certainly.