RE: Pete: Your question
<much snippage>
Al Getz wrote:
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> 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
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