OpenEuphoria

Re: No more platform(), conditional includes, conditional functions, condit

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cow?ar.co?> May 15, 2008
• 627 views

Shawn Pringle wrote:
> 
> Everything you are talking about here can be done in the existing syntax
> of Euphoria.
> 
> Its a matter of syntax whether you define or not define something; or if you
> define it to be one value or another.  You just need two builtins:
> version_string(), and version_atom().  You can guess what they could do and
> why all of this ifdef stuff is surpufluous.
> 

Shawn, do you understand what ifdef/elsifdef stuff does? What you describe is
*far* from what ifdef/elsifdef is capable of. ifdef/elsifdef is all compile time
decisions. i.e. no runtime performance hits. Code that is not matched does not
even get emitted as IL or as C translator code.

Please read: 

http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m20863.html
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http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m20891.html

After reading that, let me know if you think the ifdef stuff is superfluous.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com