OpenEuphoria

Re: Rob's going to hate me... (Remainder bug)

• Posted by "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 09, 2003
• 592 views

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Irv Mullins" <irvm at ellijay.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Rob's going to hate me... (Remainder bug)


> 
> 
> On Saturday 08 November 2003 06:38 pm, Daniel wrote:
> 
> > I think it would be good to have multiple instances of the same include
> > running, like
> > include something.e {insta,instb,instc,instd,inste,instf}
> > but I dont know if that is a good Idea maybe havinga  better handle on
> > scope while writing the include is better
> 
> It *is* a good idea. I'm doing that right now, and it is very useful. 
> A program I'm working on has 3 different lists. Each "include" which 
> managed a list (adding, deleting, editing items) was about 160 lines of code.
> I've replaced those 3 with a single include, included 3 times, saving 2/3 of 
> the code, and making changes, bug fixes, etc. far easier (there's only one 
> place to fix, instead of 3)
> 
> Later, when I have 6 or 7 lists, I'll _still_ have only about 160 lines of 
> code driving all the lists, so the savings could be significant.
> 
> 
Which is exactly the effect I get in win32lib but without multiple includes.

-- 
Derek