Re: Yay for me, found an interpreter bug!
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 02, 2003
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Urzumph" <Urzumph at HotPOP.com> To: "Mailing List" <EUforum at topica.com> Subject: Yay for me, found an interpreter bug! > > > so, now all I have to do is write a quite large work-around for it. > > Running the 2.4 Interpreter : > > namespacebugtest.e : > > atom mynumber > mynumber = 10 > > global procedure changemynumber(atom number) > mynumber = number > end procedure > > global procedure devide(atom number) > ?(number/mynumber) > end procedure > > include get.e > include namespacebugtest.e as TEST1 > include namespacebugtest.e as TEST2 > object foobar > > TEST1:changemynumber(5) > TEST2:changemynumber(0) > puts(1,"If it prints 1, then the interpreter works, if it crashes, then > it's broken.\n") > TEST1:devide(5) > > foobar = wait_key() > > I guess I'll have to do what I was really hoping not to do, to create a > _2 copy of the include file. Problem with that is, the real file is like > 500 lines of buggy code which needs fixing on a daily basis :( > This is not a bug. This behaviour is documented. What you end up with is that TEST1 and TEST2 are aliases for the same global routines. Whenever you include a file more than once, the second and subsequent includes are NOT actually included, but the namespace qualifier just becomes an alias. -- Derek