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Re: Standardized Euphoria

• Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net> Dec 25, 2006
• 688 views

Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> Re compatibility,
> If along with your "cb_stdlib.e" you release ~10 (19-byte) files , eg
> dll.e:
> }}}
<eucode>
> include cb_stdlib.e
> </eucode>
{{{

> I think that might help somewhat.
> Don't kick me if it's a duff idea, though.

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I think I know.
It's basically what I'm doing.

Here is an example of what eu/include/machine.e currently looks like in the
prototype API:

-- This file is an abstraction layer to provide Empire Std library compatability
-- to legacy applications created using the RDS libs
-- These are provided in a deprecated state.
-- When the transition from the RDS library dependencies to Empire Std library
dependencies
-- is satisfactory, these abstraction libraries will be eliminated from the
standard distribution.

include std/core/error.e
include std/util/system.e
include std/mem/mem.e
include std/mem/binary.e
include std/math/math.e
include std/gfx/graphics.e

> With regards to include file handling, under 2.4 you could code eg:
> }}}
<eucode>
> include some\path\or\other\xxx.e
> include xxx.e
> </eucode>
{{{

> and it would effectively ignore the "include xxx.e". Under 3.0.0 and
> later it has another "look see" for xxx.e, which is fine, BUT if it
> cannot (now) find, it CRASHES! I firmly believe it should check the
> previous includes and if an "xxx.e" was included OK elsewhere, accept
> that it /has/ already been included and move on...
> 
> Or am I really the lone voice of this unacceptable incompatibility?
> (this is, again, really all about not modifying 3rd party sources)

Yer saying that if foo/xxx.e is already included and I try to include bar/xxx.e
which doesn't exist, it should default to foo/xxx.e like it did when using
previous versions of Eu?

I don't agree. I consider the previous behaviour to be broken.


Happy Holidays!

Chris Bensler
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