1. Whoa Nelly
Whoa Nelly!
I think I just found a glitch in Euphoria 2.1. Notice that I called
it a glitch instead of a bug. In my definition: a glitch is just a
peculiarity or inconsistency rather than an error. Ok, here it is:
A few days ago I started writing an ex file and made a small e file
to go with it. I got up a stump and stopped after a while and zipped
them both up and deleted them. Today, I unzipped the ex file only into
a different directory because the e file had some major problems I
created a new e file with the same name (or so I thought) and rewrote
the file. When I got the code to work, I zipped them back up into the
same zip file and then I noticed that there were 2 e files in the zip!
The old one was called:
mechanics.e and the new one was called:
mechanic.e
If anyone is not understanding the implications of this, here is what's
so weird. The "include mechanics.e" statement in the ex file included
mechanic.e instead since mechanics.e wasn't there. I notice that
"mechanic" is exactly 8 chars long and "mechanics" is 9. Is this
relevant? Is it a glitch? Or is this just intentional forgiveness by
Robert?
I wonder if anyone else can reproduce the phenomenon. Note that
everytime I changed "mechanic.e" the changes showed up in "t.ex" which
included "mechanics.e" instead. Isn't this wierd or does everyone
already know about this?
really intrigued,
Lewis Townsend
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2. Re: Whoa Nelly
Lewis Townsend writes:
> The "include mechanics.e" statement in the ex file included
> mechanic.e instead since mechanics.e wasn't there. I notice that
> "mechanic" is exactly 8 chars long and "mechanics" is 9. Is this
> relevant? Is it a glitch? Or is this just intentional forgiveness by
> Robert?
I think you've just discovered the "glitch" in DOS that says
that "mechanic.e" and "mechanics.e" refer to the *same* file,
using the 8.3 naming system. You could also say:
"mechanicfoobarXYZ.e".
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
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