OpenEuphoria

Re: include statement bugs

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Oct 18, 2004
• 747 views

Hi Igor, you wrote:

> Derek Parnell wrote:

<snip>

>> No every file can be renamed without causing other problems.
>
> What one you can not  rename  _*JUST NOW*_  and  foreve?
>
> Tell me please and I'll ask the author for you to solve that
> problem immediately for you both pleasure.

<snip>

I think the problem is most likely to happen with very common names,
such as "math.e" or "string.e".

Say you have the libraries 'lib1' and 'lib2', and both contain a
"string.e" file, but with different contents. You need to include both
libraries in one of your projects.
Then you ask the author of 'lib1', to rename his "string.e" file to say
"stringX.e". S/he does so, fine for you. Now another user of 'lib1'
might get a naming problem, that s/he didn't have before, because s/he
already has a different file "stringX.e", that belongs to 'lib3'.
Of course, this other user can write to the auther of 'lib3', and ask
her/him to rename the file ...

This would be the never ending "Rename-The-File" game. 
The more widespread Euphoria will be, the more likely this will happen,
no?

Regards,
   Juergen