OpenEuphoria

Re: sub tasks

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Aug 15, 2001
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On Wednesday 15 August 2001 12:13, George Walters wrote:
>
> Does EU have any way to launch another program, pass it a value(or 2), wait
> for it to finish and receive any return value(or 2)?
>
> I have been using this (subtask) in Theos for common things like an
> Inventory or customer lookup. These would be used by may programs but only
> one copy of the look-up program need be written. For example the inventory
> search subtask is used by about 35 programs. If I find a bug in it I only
> have to change it one place. If I included it in an EU program as a
> function, I would then have to compile(to C) all programs which use it. Not
> as convinent as a subtask..... does this make sense? How would you approach
> this in EU?

Why would you have to compile it to C?
Any program which "includes" your routine can call it.

Regards,
Irv