OpenEuphoria

Re: include statement bugs

• Posted by "Igor Kachan" <kinz at peterlink.ru> Oct 18, 2004
• 935 views

Hi Juergen, you wrote:

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> From: Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de>
> To: EUforum at topica.com
> Subject: Re: include statement bugs
> Sent: 18 oct 2004 y. 17:02
> 
> Hi Igor, you wrote:
> 
> > Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> No every file can be renamed without causing other problems.
> >
> > What one you can not  rename  _*JUST NOW*_  and  foreve?
> >
> > Tell me please and I'll ask the author for you to solve that
> > problem immediately for you both pleasure.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I think the problem is most likely to happen with very common names,
> such as "math.e" or "string.e".

These short names are common, yes but this is not a problem at all.
Say, if I want contribute some _new_  proggy, I must to check the Arcive
to see what is that my proggy - new, good, single or not single on this
theme, etc - the common practice of such the work.
So, if I use the known name for my new lib, this will be my mistake,
my buggy solution.
The good practice is to know the objects & subjects and to make the new
ones. Euphoria understands the long names. Why not use the progress?

> Say you have the libraries 'lib1' and 'lib2', and both contain a
> "string.e" file, but with different contents. You need to include both
> libraries in one of your projects.
> Then you ask the author of 'lib1', to rename his "string.e" file to say
> "stringX.e". S/he does so, fine for you. Now another user of 'lib1'
> might get a naming problem, that s/he didn't have before, because s/he
> already has a different file "stringX.e", that belongs to 'lib3'.
> Of course, this other user can write to the auther of 'lib3', and ask
> her/him to rename the file ...

There is one more aspect - the doubled lib names can make many confusions
in Euphoria as a monolithic programming system.
So, it is a good thing that Euphoria understands doubled names as same
name. This is a way to make the Archive more and more robust.

> This would be the never ending "Rename-The-File" game. 
> The more widespread Euphoria will be, the more likely this will happen,
> no?

Yes, but it is the very rare and the very useful process - renaming of
doubled-name libs.


> Regards,
>    Juergen

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru