OpenEuphoria

Re: pretty_print bug

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Jun 28, 2004
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Brian:
I posted a suggestion which seemed to get ignored
that's all.

Pete:
I agree,,,and my solution isnt perfect either.
I think this whole thing needs to be thought through
a little better.  Yeah, Eu's 'integer' of 31 bits
is the real culprit again!  I dont have a single
app (out of hundreds now) that requires a 31 bit
integer over a 32 bit integer.
Long ago, i wrote a small language on a now old machine
that used mostly 16 bit integers, and i was going to use
15 bit integers saving the 16th bit for testing.  Floats
and longer ints would set this bit to 0 so it would be
fast to test for this type.  I found out in the long
run that it was a complete waste of a bit.
Maybe it's time for Euphoria to move to 32 bit integers.

Until then, i guess i'll make up my own misc.e file and
call it miscX.e or something and include that instead of
misc.e .  I'll probably add more tests to the nest to
determine the right way to print.  
Not sure what to do with PrettySeq.e yet though :)


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

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