Re: Euphoria 4.0 appears to problematic
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Dec 12, 2010
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I have used 3.11 for quite sometime and decided to try version 4. It appears to be very troublesome, probably because of the documentation where the sample codes do not work. Constants such as CONSOLE, KEYBOARD, as given in the sample throws out error msg.
I did not find examples of CONSOLE or KEYBOARD in our documentation. Can you point me to the examples where these two constants exist? I will fix them right away.
Even "namespace io" throws "errors resolving the following references".
namespace io declares a new namespace, it does not use a namespace. You must use include std/io.e for that.
running on win XP, statements such as if platform()=LINUX throws an error
All platform defines are defined in std/os.e. An example of doing what you are doing above is:
include std/os.e if platform() = LINUX then printf(1, "I'm on Linux!\n") else printf(1, "I'm not on Linux!\n") end if
Or, a new 4.0 way (conditional complation) is to use ifdef:
ifdef LINUX then printf(1, "I'm on Linux!\n") elsedef printf(1, "I'm not on Linux!\n") end ifdef
I really cannot describe the problems compared to v3.11. I'm using RC 2. Also documentation is at best sketchy especially on using win32lib
I don't think that win32lib has ever been documented in the Euphoria docs. I know that Derek has recently said: "The current Win32lib (0,70,20, "13-Nov-2010"), which is available at Sourceforge, works with Eu 4, both interpreted and translated."
Are there other issues you are having with 4.0? These don't seem to be problems, just some changes. It has been an easier migration for those who have kept up w/4.0 development as it was going on but for those that have not we are creating a What's new in 4.0 document as we speak. It should be available in a few days.
Jeremy
