OpenEuphoria

Re: Stupid Newbie-sounding question.

• Posted by Michael J. Sabal <m_sabal at yahoo.com> Jun 02, 2004
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Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> As I said before, I'll agree with an argument against this on
> technical grounds. Non-string Eu is perfectly useable, and wonderfully
> fast. I might favour string handling, but it is votes what count.
> 
> Regards,
> Pete
> PS I can be bribed )
> 
I've done a lot of work with strings in DOS, Win32Lib, and now GTK2. 
I can't say I've ever been stuck at a point where I absolutely needed
a string type.  In fact, I can only think of one situation where a 
string type would even have been helpful: writing sequences to a file with
human-readable strings to allow the file to be manipulated outside the
program.  However, I now would consider that to be a very dangerous 
programming practice, ymmv.  Add a new type or not, it really doesn't 
matter to me.
At the same time, I believe the puts() statement checks for strings 
before executing, so I expect there already is some level of string
support already in the language.

Like I said, either way it doesn't matter to me.

Mike Sabal