OpenEuphoria

Internal suroutines

• Posted by Peter Lynch <plynch49 at hotmail.com> Oct 05, 2003
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I intend to generate a considerable amount of code from a Pick 
environment.
 The code in the Pick environment has been written with the intention of 
being exported to another language. There are many issues, one of which 
i am considering at present.
 In Pick, there is a language element called GOSUB. This executes a 
named sub-procedure within the procedure, subroutine or function.
It takes no arguments, and uses the current program element's namespace.
 This named procedure is elsewhere within the procedure - with its 
detail coded as normal.
 E.g.
  Start:
     Gosub Hello_World
     Stop
  Hello_World:
    Notify_Msg("Hello World")
  Return
 This encapsulates inline code in a programmer defined semantic context.
 Of course, if this structure existed in Euphoria, my conversion would 
be easy because i dont need to investigate within the namespace in my 
conversion code.
 I am wondering if it may be a useful thing to add anyway. It does allow 
clarification by the decomposition of long sequences of code, without 
the overhead of argument passing.

Regards,
Peter