OpenEuphoria

Re: call_back() etc

• Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Aug 13, 1999
• 508 views

----- Original Message -----
From: Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: call_back() etc


> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Kat wrote:
>
> > One word: huristics.
> >
> > I expect i will not know when i write more code that i will know all i
want
> > the code to do, indeed, i expect the code to write more of it's own
code. I
> > fully expect and hope that new vars will be created, var names that i
can
> > only guess at now, altho i do have a skeleton for it to build on. I, for
> > one, will need the code i write to be able to interface to code i have
no
> > knowledge of, using variables i don't know the names of. So far, what i
have
> > done does work, and i hope it works in Eu. This is why i wish to avoid
*all*
> > type checking also, i have no idea what the types are, and i don't care
> > either. If a variable is a math expression, maybe i want to *execute*
that
> > variable, if it is an integer, then i can increment it, or maybe i want
to
> > append them and print them out. I do not want info types locked in at
> > compile time or at run time. If i have a callable function that does
> > something, and i want it to do something new *while the calling app is
> > running*, because the program learned something and wants to implement
it,
> > then it should be free to do so. It's the basic principle of learning,
to
> > grow, to be able to do things not known at compile time.
>
> Interesting. What answer (or answers) will your program give to this
question:
> what is "Hello World" + 29.95 ?

Prolly the same answer i would give you: A badly formed math expression with
no answer.
Re-read where i said "If a variable is a math expression, maybe i want to
*execute* that
> > variable, if it is an integer, then i can increment it, or maybe i want
to
> > append them and print them out. "

Kat