OpenEuphoria

Re: Packages

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at ?gricul?ure.gouv.fr> Aug 07, 2007
• 707 views

jacques deschênes wrote:
> 
> Your system is too complex, it add a lot of new keywords. Why make it complex
> when one can make simple.

Because simple systems won't work.
They will create issues of their own, out of short-sightedness.

> A few days ago I propose a namespace system similar to what C# use.
> My proprosed system needs only 3 new keywords.
> 
> ref.: <a
> href="http://www.openeuphoria.org/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=6&fromYear=1&toMonth=8&toYear=C&postedBy=Jacques+Desch%EAnes&keywords=namespace">http://www.openeuphoria.org/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=6&fromYear=1&toMonth=8&toYear=C&postedBy=Jacques+Desch%EAnes&keywords=namespace</a>
> 
> In my first post I didn't said that the same namespace identifier could be
> used
> in more than one file as in C#.
> Also I proposed a 2 keywords namespace system, now I add a third one: 'alias'
> 
> alias  namepace1:namespace2:...:namespacen  as alias_name
> this will enable a shorter typing alias_name for long path.
> 

Mine has less typing, and requires less namespaces, so it is simpler. Yours does
not address the problem of existing code which doesn't use namspaces at all.

> tree structure like this are simple system used in many place in information
> system, form exemple: file system, 
> snmp protocol, wbem protocol to name a few.
> 
> regards,
> Jacques Deschênes
> 
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I just posted at <a
> > href="http://oedoc.free.fr/Packages.htm">http://oedoc.free.fr/Packages.htm</a>
> a description</font></i>
> > for a packaging system for Euphoria.
> > 
> > It will solve the name clash issues definitively and allow to write cleaner
> > code by breaking large libraries into smaller subsets. The system was
> > designed
> > so that not a single piece of code will break. Performancewise, the only
> > place
> > where it may be noticeable - I didn't check yet - is the processing of an
> > include
> > statement, hardly a speed bottleneck - the time to open the file and fetch
> > physical
> > data from hard disk dominates any software processing.
> > 
> > Since I simplified a couple things from my 2.5 eu.ex implementation, more
> > tests
> > are needed before creating a new development branch with the new system. I
> > hope
> > to get this done during this month - writing docs in the .htx format
> > explains
> > the loose timetable.
> > 
> > CChris