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A nice little feature i have seen in other languages...
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:49 pm
by Hydrate
Well, i saw this article on digg:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html
I have been thinking, would it not be extreemly useful to be able to simply replace the name of a procedure your calling with a variable, for example:
procedure Name(Procname$,x,y)
if blah=0
Procname$(blah,
elseif blah=1
Procname$(blah, 2)
else
endif
endprocedure
Can this be done, or can it be implimented?
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:44 pm
by Fred
I don't think so as PB is a compiled langage, it would need to have a lookup table to be able to do that which will kill the speed of the function call. And even, it looks like it's really tricky to read and maintain.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:47 pm
by Kale
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:51 pm
by freak
Prototypes are the way to go here.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 3:49 pm
by Psychophanta
freak wrote:Prototypes are the way to go here.
Yeeah!
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Prototype Proc(a,b)
Procedure c(b,z)
Debug b
Debug z
EndProcedure
Procedure Name(Procname.Proc,x,y)
Procname=@c()
If blah=0
Procname(blah, 8)
ElseIf blah=1
Procname(blah, 2)
Else
EndIf
EndProcedure
Name(0,0,0)
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:33 pm
by Hydrate
Psychophanta wrote:freak wrote:Prototypes are the way to go here.
Yeeah!
Code: Select all
Prototype Proc(a,b)
Procedure c(b,z)
Debug b
Debug z
EndProcedure
Procedure Name(Procname.Proc,x,y)
Procname=@c()
If blah=0
Procname(blah, 8)
ElseIf blah=1
Procname(blah, 2)
Else
EndIf
EndProcedure
Name(0,0,0)
Ah, thank you very much, i was wondering about this
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:15 pm
by theNerd
I read Joel's article about that just this week. If's funny that he used an interpretted language like Javascript as an example instead of a real compiler.