OpenEuphoria

Re: Globals and shrouding

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jun 28, 2001
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On Thursday 28 June 2001 09:51, Tony Bucholtz wrote:

>
> Irv Mullins wrote:
> > Hey, wait a minute here! Why not just a new "with shrouding"  command:
> > <snip>
>
> Irv, I agree, your "with/without shrouding" is much tidier, and
> <hint> should be easier for Rob to implement </hint>. The only
> thing I could add would be to ensure that these commands have no
> ill effects on code that *isn't* shrouded.
>

I can't see any possibility of ill effects - Euphoria itself would just 
ignore "with shrouding" or "without shrouding" as meaningless. 
The shrouder is the only thing that looks for these flags.

Of couse, I was careful to make my references to the functions and 
procedure descriptions as -- comments, so that Euphoria would ignore 
these as well, leaving the "real" functions and procedures safely hidden 
away in the shrouded portion of the file. Should I forget to make these 
as comments, no big deal, Euphoria will warn me right away, 
because there are no matching end function or end procedure lines. 
(does that already)

However, this introduces some extra work - if I change the functions or 
parameters in my code, I must also be careful to change the "documentation"
in the comments at the top. I usually forget.

I can't think of a simple way around this. It's a shame when programmers 
have to actually do work, isn't it  :)

Regards,
Irv