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RE: Routine_ID Is No Doubt My Solution...

• Posted by Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com> Apr 12, 2003
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> >How come I get no valid routine_ids?
> Yikes, now there is a nasty programming gotcha. Somehow at the point
> where routine_id is called it appears to be searching a saved list of
> routine names known at that point during parsing... rather than the
> expected scan of the full symbol table at that point during execution!
> Maybe an over-zealous optimisation, Rob?
> 

The function/procedure has to be "visible" to the routine_id() function 
and therefore can't be above (in the code) those functions.  So the 
routine_id assignment has to occur below the function it refers to.

You could just pass both the name & the id to add_command:

procedure add_command( sequence newcommand, integer rid )
command_list = append( command_list , newcommand )
command_id = append( command_id, rid )
end procedure

function delete_all_cards()
cards = {}
return {1,""}
end function
add_command("delete_all_cards",routine_id("delete_all_cards"))

or just create a constant with the routine names and then loop through 
them to get the ids.  Less typing.