OpenEuphoria

include statement bugs

• Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net> Oct 17, 2004
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There is a demo to go along with this post, but it doesn't seem I can 
attach files.
You can get the zip here:
http://empire.iwireweb.com/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=189

There are 2 problems.
 
1. backslash and forwardslash should work identically, with the 
behaviour that frontslash.ex demonstrates

    Using backslash, euphoria thinks that both lib1\test_include.e
    and lib2\test_include.e are the same file and completely ignores
    the second.
 
    Using \ is apparently supposed to be the expected behaviour.
    The fact that / works at all is considered a bug.
    This is why I so strongly opposed the 'bug fix' for / that RDS was 
going to do for v2.4
    I use subfolders to help keep my projects more organized, and I have 
to say it works well.
    In fact, I consider it bad practice to put files directly into my 
include path.
    I use subfolders as much as possible.
 
    Win32lib would be easier to deal with, if it were distributed as a 
self contained subfolder.
    Instead it has to be placed directly in the include path, which 
combined with countless other libraries,
    begins to cause issues with 'filename clashing'. Another namespacing 
problem that has
    yet to come to a head.
 
    Euphoria basically doesn't allow the programmer to utilize the 
benefit of directory structure,
    to help organize our growing library archives.
    
    I will even go so far as to suggest that rds moves it's own official 
libraries to include/rds/*
    as example and incentive for others to do the same.
 

2. "lib1\test_include.e" fails
   Rob Szalay pointed it out to me.
 
      F:\empire\projects\include_test\backslash.ex:1
      can't find lib1 est_include.e in F:\empire\projects\include_test
      or in f:\empire\include\rds;f:\my empire\include
      or in f:\empire\include
      include "lib1\test_include.e" as lib1
                                          ^
   Notice also, "can't find lib1 est_include.e".


Chris Bensler
Code is Alchemy