OpenEuphoria

Forward References (was: Re: Anxiety over 4.0)

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at ?ahoo.c?m> Jun 11, 2008
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CChris wrote:
> There was hardly any discussion on the dev list that it should not be added.

See, this is where our philosophies differ. I say "why add it" and you say "why
not".

So, why forward references? And another question, are we talking about doing
away with declare before use entirely or just reintroducing the routine_id()
"bug" from a couple of years ago?

Because while I can support the second item (and that shouldn't be too hard to
reintroduce anyway, right?) I'm completely baffled by the idea of doing away with
declare before use.

So what problem would forward references solve that the current Euphoria include
system (with 4.0 improvements) doesn't solve?

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.