OpenEuphoria

Re: Resurection of routine_id forward referencing

• Posted by ChrisBurch2 <crylex at freeuk.co.uk> Sep 20, 2006
• 703 views

Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> > This was forward referencing of routine_id.
> > Rob saw this as a bug, and "fixed" it, despite pleas from others,
> > especially Derek Parnell, to leave it in. Since Eu is going "open source",
> > can this feature be reinstated? I imagine we will need the eu2.5a source,
> > and some coding skill that I don't have!
> 
> I for one do see it as a bug. It breaks the top-down format of of
> Euphoria. When I need jump back-and-forth between my code and
> reference various routines from anywhere, I declare an integer for the
> id of each routine I need at the very top of my code, then set that
> integer to the id right after the end statement. Allowing one to see
> "ahead" into the code breaks the core functionality of Euphoria. Let's
> not start this debate again...
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> -- declare id integers
> integer func2_id
> 
> function func1()
> 
>     object i
> 
>     i = call_func( func2_id, {} )
> 
>     return 0
> end function
> 
> function func2()
> 
>     return 1
> end function
> func2_id = routine_id( "func2" )
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> 

Hi

Just adding to this. This is a very exciting time for eu, and there will be a
lot of changes, as poeple add there bits and pieces. There does need to be a 
_loose_ organisational structure, but make it too restrictive, and people will
lose interest.

May I please ask that any changes people make retain backwards compatability.
I e if you add forward referencing for functions and procedures, then retain
the routine_id concept (frankly I like routine_id, but who am I to tell people
how to code) - you have the choice of whether to use it or not.

Similarly with goto - if you don't want to use it, don't, but if you do, you
can.

Personally, I would like a continue keyword! If I do ever get that, and someone
tries to run Eu with an old interpreter then what? So can we have a
VERSION_MAJOR
and a VERSION_MINOR global variable. And so on.

Interesting times ahead.

Chris