Whoa Nelly

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Whoa Nelly!
    I think I just found a glitch in Euphoria 2.1.  Notice that I called
it a glitch instead of a bug.  In my definition: a glitch is just a
peculiarity or inconsistency rather than an error.  Ok, here it is:

   A few days ago I started writing an ex file and made a small e file
to go with it.  I got up a stump and stopped after a while and zipped
them both up and deleted them.  Today, I unzipped the ex file only into
a different directory because the e file had some major problems I
created a new e file with the same name (or so I thought) and rewrote
the file.  When I got the code to work, I zipped them back up into the
same zip file and then I noticed that there were 2 e files in the zip!
The old one was called:
mechanics.e and the new one was called:
mechanic.e
If anyone is not understanding the implications of this, here is what's
so weird.  The "include mechanics.e" statement in the ex file included
mechanic.e instead since mechanics.e wasn't there.  I notice that
"mechanic" is exactly 8 chars long and "mechanics" is 9.  Is this
relevant?  Is it a glitch?  Or is this just intentional forgiveness by
Robert?

I wonder if anyone else can reproduce the phenomenon.  Note that
everytime I changed "mechanic.e" the changes showed up in "t.ex" which
included "mechanics.e" instead.  Isn't this wierd or does everyone
already know about this?

really intrigued,
Lewis Townsend

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