OpenEuphoria

Re: Detecting the Eu version

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Dec 14, 2004
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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:00:38 +1100, Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com>
wrote:

>If I take a Eu2.5 program and try and run it on Eu2.3, it probably
>won't work. Fair enough. However, *why* doesn't it work? A *user* who
>encounters a problem caused by this won't know why it occurs. By being
>able to *require* a version, the interpreter can stop and say "Error,
>this program requires Euphoria version 2.5 or newer", which is much
>more helpful.

Absolutely, the bugbear being you can achieve this in 2.4 but cannot
in a theoretical 2.5 vs 2.6 scenario, hence the request to act now.

Still hoping Rob will at least comment on

	with 2.5

and hoping he will agree the '.' will distinguish it adequately from
historical stamping statements.

Regards,
Pete