OpenEuphoria

Re: call_back() etc

• Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Aug 14, 1999
• 465 views

----- Original Message -----
From: Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: call_back() etc


> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, you wrote:
>
> > > Unless, of course, your program refuses to accept the assignments:
> > > "Hello World" = 3
> > > 29.95 = "Bubba"
> >
> > No reason not to accept those, but in your previous email, you didn't
say
> > you had done that, and when i searched my personal wetware's memory
banks, i
> > saw no such assignments either.
>
> Accept them if you wish. However, neither you nor your program has any way
at
> all of knowing whether I want "Hello World", or 29.95, to be treated as a
string
> of characters, a formula, or a variable reference.
>
> I declare a variable:
> 2 = "Hi there"
> now I enter a common formula:
> diameter = radius * 2
> I'm afraid this is going to return the famous "unexpected result".

I seem to be missing your point. I wouldn't know what you wanted either,
unless i were to forgo processing nonsense and ask you what you wanted. What
is your point?

Kat,
now wondering if "Hi There" was ever defined.