OpenEuphoria

Re: Forward References (was: Re: Anxiety over 4.0)

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpon?.?om> Jun 11, 2008
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Jason Gade wrote:

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

(1) Having to be forced into a routine_id arrangement for mutually recursive
routines (I use these fairly frequently)

(2) Having to physically rearrange my source code whenever I happen to add a
reference to a routine below. The new location of the now-referred to routine is
not always easy to determine and is almost never in a logical place with respect
to 'related' routines. For example, I like to group together routines that are
related in some manner. But when I'm forced to reorganise because of the lack off
forward references, the routine often ends up far removed from its related
routines.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
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