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Re: Minor code nitpicking with win32lib.ew

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Dec 15, 2002
• 456 views

Your wish is my command.

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cheers,
Derek Parnell
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Craig" <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Minor code nitpicking with win32lib.ew


> 
> Derek, here are a few trivial coding changes 
> I'd like to see in Win32lib.ew:
> 
> 1. Remove the two dashes on the last line, 
>     or add a \n character to that line. This triggers a bug in
>     the binder for 2.3. It has been fixed for 2.4, but people
>     will continue to encounter this for a while.
> 
> 2. Do not have statements like:
>     with trace
>     without trace
>     with profile
>     without profile
>     in released versions of win32lib.ew.
>    The user of win32lib.ew should be free to choose full profiling
>     or tracing (1 or 3) without interference from win32lib.ew
> 
> 3. Replace the call to the WIN32 API ExitProcess, with abort(0).
>     That way, the Euphoria interpreter will have a chance
>      to do its final cleanup, including outputting the ex.pro
>      profiling information and closing user files, including .dll's.
>      As I vaguely recall, ExitProcess does not flush regular user files
>      that were opened with open(), but never closed with close().
>      The last few K of buffered data could be lost.
> 
> Thanks,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
> 
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