OpenEuphoria

Re: Why doesn't this work? (short)

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> May 18, 2003
• 408 views

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Lomax" <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Why doesn't this work? (short)


>
> On Sun, 18 May 2003 07:27:12 +1000, Derek Parnell
> <ddparnell at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> >   drop global_symbol_1,...
>
> Nice idea, though I dont feel this warrants a new keyword, how about
> instead a new builtin:
>
> renameglobal("procD","x1procD")
>
> would be useful, and
>
> renameglobal("procD","")
>
> could function as drop
>
> Pete

Because 'drop ...' works at interpretation/compile time and built in
routines work at runtime. And namespace clashes occur at interpretation
time.


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cheers,
Derek Parnell