OpenEuphoria

\euphoria\include\pathlib?

• Posted by Rudy Toews <rltoews at PANGEA.CA> Nov 22, 1998
• 521 views

good day,
i have downloaded several programs from various people to enhance my
Euphoria knowledge. i want to start a project to build a cross-reference
of include statements which will allow a pre-processor to eliminate
uneeded ones but still include the remaining source.
the problem i encountered recently was nested includes. the same
variable was used in both programs but was typed a constant in the first
program and so an error was flagged.
a second confusion occurred when i wanted to keep programs from two
different programmers doing a similar thing in seperate directorys. this
way i could test the newer one while letting my older programs continue
to operate until they are updated. if a standard could be setup with
programmers to have their programs use a full path in their include
statements then old programs wouldn't have to be changed enmass. the
newly written programs would use the new path.

Euphoria's search pattern is still crippled by Dos's system.
Dos's path statement is only a pointer to a destination not truly a path
at all.  since none of the directories in the path are searched.

i tried to re-direct the include statements by creating files.e in the
include directory with only one line in it:

include \euphoria\include\textgui\files.e

and in the program use:
include files.e

but the euphoria pre-processor didn't accept duplicate includes.
maybe the future we can simply create a single file listing the search
parameters for the euphoria system.  a true path facility.

also , a challenge to all who write to this mailing list for the month
of december.
if your email was a file on your computer, you would have a path to
describe where it was right? the challenge is to have your subject line
for your email have a path too. that way people talking about the same
subject would have their responses all together on the archives.
i have seen different phrasing of the same problem several times.
try it just for december.

if i get enought email on this i will post the results on the archive as
a survey.

rudy
rltoews at pangea.ca