OpenEuphoria

Re: Independent Euphoria Interpreter

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at y?hoo.c?m> Dec 14, 2007
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Pete Lomax wrote:
> > > Should more than one file be allowed?
> Perhaps. You might equally want a semicolon separator in the -i option.

Colon for *nix; semicolon for DOS/Windows.

> > > |   * command line switches
> > > |         * -c command line switch
> > > |         * -i command line switch (a specific directory)
> > > 
> > One is a config file (using the -c switch), and another is passing a 
> > directory right there on the command line.
> Personally I would reword that as:
>    * command line switches
>          * -c <config file>
>          * -i <directory of euinc.conf>

I dunno about using -i for euinc.conf; I would prefer -i to be a list of
directories to check for include files (in addition to whatever has already been
configured). Both styles of config files should accept the same syntax and -c can
specify both of them (or even one file that fills in for both).

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j.