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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Handle #Include the way it's meant to be handled!

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MikeK
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Posted: 17th May 2010 20:01
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Can we please have it so that when you use #include, it will include the contents of the specified file at the location of the command?

It will prevent having dozens of variables having to be defined at the head of the main source code, when they could be defined in the relevant include source.

DBPro must be the only compiler in the world to not follow that rule.

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Posted: 17th May 2010 21:40
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I am pretty sure that the IDE handles all of the the including.
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MikeK
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Yeah, by appending the contents of such included files at the end of the main file.

If you have an include file that requires definition of Globals, or Constants, then it would fail, if you need to access those definitions in the main body of the program.

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Posted: 17th May 2010 22:08
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Quote: "If you have an include file that requires definition of Globals, or Constants, then it would fail, if you need to access those definitions in the main body of the program."

I don't think that's true, I declare globals in my included dba's all the time. In fact I almost always have a seperate dba for "setup"... I don't know about constants though

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Posted: 18th May 2010 13:40
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Yeah, I tend to have a subroutine for initiating variables, then just call that from the main sources. Subroutines work in includes - I'm not sure that they did before, but it works now and is really quite neat to work like that. Personally I like to have separate IDE's for each source file, instead of using the built in 'include' features. I mostly use the old IDE though, things might be better in the new one.


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Include file added via the IDE get appended at the end of the main source. #Included files get added at the point of inclusion by the compiler.

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Posted: 18th May 2010 16:04
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Quote: "Include file added via the IDE get appended at the end of the main source. #Included files get added at the point of inclusion by the compiler."

Have you verified that with a source code example? I thought that too but IanM debunked my assumption and said #include just appends to the end of the main source. I didn't try it out to confirm because I never use #include anyway, but I assume IanM was right because he always is.

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As mentioned before you should setup a gosub routine to declare global variables, etc. and just call it from your main source. Nothing wrong with doing that, in my opinion, and it's actually neater than assuming execution should run all the way through a #include file.

Something tells me you're not using functions at all in these included files?


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Posted: 18th May 2010 23:24
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However you include additional code files, the code is always appended to the end of the source code.

You can test this yourself by putting a single print statements into code files like so:

main.dba


other.dba


If you get main.dba printed, then the file was appended. If you get other.dba printed, then file file was inserted.

Quote: "Can we please have it so that when you use #include, it will include the contents of the specified file at the location of the command?"

Probably won't happen, mainly for compatibility reasons and because of the line-number issues.

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