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RE: Declaring a Function,,,(Matt/David)

• Posted by Phil Russell <pg_russell at lineone.net> Nov 02, 2003
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Matt/David,

You are quite right to take me to task for this.  On reflection I should 
have put it as: 'I don't understand why Rob insists on this clunky 
(partial) solution for forward references, however useful it might for 
solving other problems' 

Regards,

Phil


Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> 
> David Cuny wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Phil Russel wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't understand why Rob insists on something so clunky when 
> > > there is no real need for it.
> > 
> 
> <snip>
>  
> > With routine_id, you could create a lookup table of event handlers. 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > So while it turns out to be an inelegant solution for forward 
> > references, it's a very flexible solution for callbacks.
> 
> And also for modular code.  I've made a lot of use in, eg., matheval and 
> 
> eusql for handling lots of different things using routine_id, where I 
> have a main loop, and then the actual code for each case is contained in 
> 
> its own routine.  To add new cases, I just add a new routine and add its 
> 
> id and condition to a couple of sequences that are referenced in the 
> main loop.
> 
> Matt Lewis
>