OpenEuphoria

Re: Eu's poor design

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Aug 18, 2003
• 480 views

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:32:45PM +0000, Andreas Rumpf wrote:
> > > > > Still nobody showed me how to do
> > > > > seq[1][2][3] = some_func(seq[1][2][3])
> > > > > easier in Eu. Still nobody showed me an elegant tables.e
> > > > > implementation
> > > > > without pbr. 
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I believe you are letting your thinking be too much influenced by the 
> > > > languages you are used to.  You don't have pbr, so you think, "My god, 
> > > > how in the world can I solve this problem in Euphoria?" 
> > > Oh boy, I know how to solve it in Euphoria. It is just that the solution 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > is neither elegant or efficient.
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't think you know the best way to do it Euphoria, because you are 
> > forcing un-Euphorian concepts onto it.
> Using loops is an un-Euphorian concept? Using pbr is an un-Euphorian 
> concept? I don't think so.

Loops are not. PBR is, considering the hacks one has to go thru to emulate it.

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