OpenEuphoria

Re: Yay for me, found an interpreter bug!

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 02, 2003
• 934 views

----- 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