1. Re: Checkpoint
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Nov 02, 2001
No. I was thinking only about variables and the point of execution, but now
that you mention it, open-file-status would be useful, although I don't see
how to implement it. The data that has been written is still there, so that
it should be backupped by the user if he wants so. Probably you noticed that
I am missing this facility from APL...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Craig" <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Checkpoint
>
> rforno writes:
> > I think that it would be very useful the ability to write a checkpoint
or
> > snapshot to disk at a certain point in the program, so that if, for
example,
> > the power fails, it can be reinitiated at the point of failure
>
> Well, maybe I'll add some sort of commit and rollback
> facility to EDS, but I can't see trying to do a general one
> for all programs.
> Do you expect Euphoria to remember the entire state
> of the program, including all open files, and what has been
> read/written so far, as well as what has been written to the screen,
> what API calls have been made, etc?
>
> Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
>
>
>
