OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria 2.5 alpha

• Posted by Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com> Nov 17, 2004
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> 2.4 and earlier read the source in chunks. They closed the main source
> file after reading the last chunk. This let you do things
> like edit ed.ex using itself. I'll look into closing the
> source after the front-end has completed. I guess it closes now
> after execution. That will make 2.5 even better than 2.4 or earlier, 
> in this respect (though how many people want to modify the
> very source file they are currently running?)
> 
Me. All the time.  Everyday -- editing the file I am currently running is
something I do constantly.  If it were to read in the entire source and then
close it at start-up of the interpreter that would be great...