1. simple question (using euphoria 1.4)
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please open the attachment to see my question about using "include"
inside a loop. an attachment was the only way i could figure out how to
import text into a netscape email message.
please note that i am using euphoria 1.4, if that makes any difference.
thanks
joe
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i have been working on a program for some time now and have gotten to a point
where it needs a basic
redesign in order to be more easily maintained.
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what i am doing now (with 8 functions instead of just two) :
function FirstFunction(parameter list)
do stuff
return value
end function
function SecondFunction(parameter list)
do stuff
return value
end function
while NotEndProgram
FirstFunction(parameter list)
do processing here
SecondFunction(parameter list)
do more processing here
end while
this works but is almost 600 lines long and is quite difficult to maintain and
modify. however, it does
work and allow the program to loop (requesting data, doing calculations, etc)
until i decide to stop it.
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what i have managed to do so far :
include FirstFunction.ex
do processing here
include SecondFunction.ex
do more processing here
etc.
with FirstFunction, SecondFunction, and others in separate files. this allows
me to have the functions
in separate files, and call them. unfortunately, it runs only once and then
stops. if i want to enter
more data to be processed, i have to start the program over again.
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what i would like to do :
while NotEndProgram do
include FirstFunction.ex
do processing here
include SecondFunction.ex
do more processing here
end while
with FirstFunction, SecondFunction, and others in separate files.
unfortunately, euphoria doesn't seem
to like "include" inside a while loop. is there any way around this, that
allows the program to loop and
still have the functions in separate files?
thanks
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2. Re: simple question (using euphoria 1.4)
I'm guessing that you're moving the body of the functions into seperate
include files so they run automatically when they are included. You could try
putting the whole function in the include files, include the files once, then
call the functions. You can't put include statements in a loop, and once
you've included a file, it doesn't run the next time you include it. For
example:
-- a.e
puts(1,"Hello, world!\n")
-- a.ex
include a.e
include a.e
If you run a.ex, it will display Hello, world! only once, since the
interpreter recognizes that a.e has already been included, and therefore
doesn't load it again.
Jeffrey Fielding
JJProg at cyberbury.net
http://members.tripod.com/~JJProg/
EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU wrote:
> please open the attachment to see my question about using "include"
> inside a loop. an attachment was the only way i could figure out how to
> import text into a netscape email message.
>
> please note that i am using euphoria 1.4, if that makes any difference.
>
> thanks
>
> joe
>
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3. Re: simple question (using euphoria 1.4)
>joe you wrote:
>i have been working on a program for some time now and have gotten to a
point where it needs a basic
>redesign in order to be more easily maintained.
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>what i am doing now (with 8 functions instead of just two) :
Joe: maybe this will help
global constant
forever = -1,
TRUE = -1,
FALSE = 0
global atom endofprogram
endofprogram = FALSE
function FirstFunction(parameter list)
do stuff
-- to exit set endofprogram = TRUE
return value
end function
function SecondFunction(parameter list)
do stuff
-- to exit set endofprogram = TRUE
return value
end function
while forever do
FirstFunction(parameter list)
if endofprogram then exit end if
SecondFunction(parameter list)
if endofprogram then exit end if
end while
finish up here
Bernie
4. Re: simple question (using euphoria 1.4)
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Joe wrote:
> >%_please open the attachment to see my question about using "include"
> inside a loop. an attachment was the only way i could figure out how to
> import text into a netscape email message.
>
> please note that i am using euphoria 1.4, if that makes any difference.
>
You can put the functions into separate include files, and call them as often
as you want from a loop:
-- file hello.e
global function sayHello() -- note: these could be procedures,
puts(1,"Hello\n") -- since in this example they don't
return 0 -- return anything useful
end function
-- file goodbye.e
global function sayBye()
puts(1,"Bye Now\n")
return 0
end function
-- file boorring.exu
include hello.e
include goodbye.e
integer x
while 1 do -- this will run forever, hence the name
x = sayHello()
x = sayBye()
end while
Hope that helps,
Irv Mullins
