OpenEuphoria

RE: Pete: Your question

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com> Nov 04, 2003
• 540 views

<much snippage>

Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Hello again Pete,
> 
> I believe you are over simplifying the 'generic' solution.
> Your constants 'input' and 'output' make it seem like these
> will be the only two constants ever needed, but that's not
> the case at all.  Instead, they should be renamed to
> Instance1 and Instance2.  This makes it a little more
> clear that if a third instance needs to be taken out,
> you'll have to go back into the test.e file and take
> out another constant 'Instance3', plus change the length
> of the sequence x to 3 instead of 2.  Not only that,
> these have to be global variables which adds to the
> global clutter of variables in the program.
> This is taken care of with the 'include new' approach,
> and also in the substitute code i presented, but not
> in your code.  Your code doesnt automatically take
> care of this, so it cant be the same in five lines either.

Al, I think you've missed the point.  If you want to *dynamically* have 
multiple instances of variables, then the id-sequence way is really the 
only way to do it (see Win32Lib, or any other lib that allows multiple 
instances of things).  If you only have a couple (and you know at 
compile time how many you need) then you should probably copy the file 
to a separate name, and include them under separate namespaces.

Matt Lewis