OpenEuphoria

Re: built-ins and include files

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Feb 03, 2000
• 405 views

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:40:19 -0500, Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> wrote:
>
> >Because these are platform dependent. The code varies between DOS, Linux,
> and
> >whatever comes next.
> >Makes sense to keep all such things separate. DOS graphics aren't much use
> on
> >Windows, for example, so why include them in the base run-time package?
> >
>   Irv
>
>   That only takes 1 constant
>
>   CONSTANT PLATFORM = whateverplatform
>
>   to turn on or change internal functions for various platforms.

If code for all the platforms is included in the interpreter - yes.
Do you really want DOS / LiNUX / Windows graphics code in the Euphoria
interpreter, along with DOS / LINUX / Windows interrupts for disk i/o, screen
i/o, real-time clock, etc.etc... when you can never use more than one at a time?

Irv