Whoa Nelly
- Posted by Lewis Townsend <keroltarr at HOTMAIL.COM> Jan 29, 1999
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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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com