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Re: Rob - what happened to the -clear option?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Dec 29, 2005
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Jonas Temple wrote:
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > In 2.4 you could trace a file that was shrouded with the -clear option.
> > It was a single large source file, with usually only a few symbols renamed.
> > 
> > There's no -clear, so you can't do this.
> > You'll have to trace the original source.
> > 
> 
> What was the justification for removing this feature in 2.5?  It seems to me
> that we lost some functionality in this respect from 2.4 to 2.5.

Yes, we lost that functionality and gained other functionality,
and we now have a single, very reliable, and consistent parser 
used in the interpreter, PD-source, translator and binder.
The binder used to have its own unique, special-purpose parser 
which was often found to be slightly inconsistent with 
the interpreter's parser. It also required extra maintainence
whenever a change was made to the language.

Most people want to bind or shroud without their source
being readable by others. If you want others to see your source,
you can just give them your source files (though it might not be
quite as convenient as a single monolithic source file). One reason for 
making a single large source file was to get a readable ex.err file
when someone crashed your program. You can get that now without 
exposing any source code. Just use -full_debug.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com