1. Re: A better way to do this?
On 25 Feb 2005, at 15:21, Al Getz wrote:
>
>
> posted by: Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com>
>
> Brent W. Hughes wrote:
> > Here are a couple of solutions that I don't like:
> > --****************************************
> > function Sub2(sequence MyList)
> > MyList[900] = 5
> > return MyList
> > end function
> > -----------------------------------------
> > sequence List
> > List = repeat(0,10000)
> > List = Sub2(List)
> > ------------------------------------------
>
> Hi there,
>
>
> I've used this technique myself many times, but mainly with
> small sequences. You could ask Rob how he implements
> function calls that declare privates that are also returned,
> but i think in order for the function to be truely recursive
> it has to create a new sequence (if the function calls itself).
>
> This is one of the reasons i was pushing for "re-includes"...
> that is, you can include a file several times in the same ew file
> and each time it creates a separate 'instance' of that include file.
> Like:
> include MyList.ew as ML1
> include MyList.ew as ML2
>
> now you have two lists:
> ML1:MyList
> and
> ML2:MyList
> so depending on which list you want to read/write to, you
> just use that one's name space qualifier, ML1 or ML2 in this case.
Can't you do this with the exec() function? Just read any file into a sequence,
and call it what you want, and exec() it as needed?
Kat
