OpenEuphoria

Re: routine_id() Discovery

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agriculture.gouv.?r> May 21, 2008
• 667 views

c.k.lester wrote:
> 
> Maybe this is common knowledge, but I just discovered this...
> 
> A routine doesn't have to be global in order to call it from what would
> otherwise require a global definition.
> 
> For example, this would normally fail:
> 
> -- mylib.e
> func myfunc()
> end func
> 
> -- myprog.e
> x = myfunc()
> 
> with myfunc() is not defined (I think).
> 
> But, if I add the routine_id() of myfunc() to a global list, then I can
> call it from myprog.e with call_func().
> 
> That means it can be exported but not made global... right?

This turns a global function into a global variable to hold or pass the
routine_id. Great. It still needs being hidden.

CChris