OpenEuphoria

RE: Berkeley DB with Euphoria

• Posted by Andy Serpa <renegade at earthling.net> Oct 01, 2002
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irv at take.maxleft.com wrote:
> 
> Andy Serpa wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, exactly, so in my example of including database.e twice as "dbA" 
> > and "dbB" you could:
> > 
> > dbA:db_open("database A")
> > dbB:db_open("database B")
> > 
> > Now BOTH databases will be open and current so instead of using 
> > db_select() and switching back & forth you just use the appropriate 
> > "dbA:" or "dbB:" in front of the proper one.  Sort of a quick & dirty 
> > way to get separate "instances" in a OOP-like fashion...
> > 
> > (Unless there is some reason that won't work?  Like I said, I haven't 
> > actually tried it.)
> 
> It won't work, because Rob's implementation of namespacing doesn't 
> create multiple instances of an include, it just makes "aliases" for 
> one single instance. I, for one, think this is unfortunate.
> 
> Therefore, no matter what you prefix the db_* commands with, they 
> still use the single copy of database.e with its variables (including 
> the currently selected database file).
> 

Ok, what if we just make two copies of database.e and then:

include databaseA.e as dbA
include databaseB.e as dbB

Now would they be separate?