[Gambas-user] Changes in LINK

[Christopher Brian Jack]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Christopher Brian Jack wrote:

This email took a while to write benoit so I didn't get your last reply
about not wanting to change the syntax until after I composed and sent it
off...

BTW: I wonder if olinux has had a chance to play around with the tree
walker I posted for him?  I didn't see any other solutions posted or any
other indication that he solved his need for TreeView iteration (if he did
I start to wonder if I'm getting all the list emails...).

> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:41:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Christopher Brian Jack <brian at ...1334...>
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>     <gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
> To: mailing list for gambas users <gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Changes in LINK
>
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Rob wrote:
>
> Could the AS keyword be used in the inverted form?
>
> eg:
> LINK <source> AS <destination>
>
> Or does the AS keyword have some internal management that requires it to
> be paired with datatypes or class names (hence it could only be used as a
> keyword in things like declarations where a datatype or class name is
> involved).
>
> Another alternative could be to take out LINK completely and make Link a
> File method (I can just hear the boos and hisses now)?
>
> eg:
> DIM HFile AS File
> OPEN "<source>" FOR READ AS #hFile
> hFile.Link("<destination>")
> hFile.Close()
>
> Possibly also has the benefit of localizing checks for existance but maybe
> not since a race condition could render the handle invalid by the time the
> interpretor got from OPEN to File.Link
>
> That brings up another idea:
>
> OPEN [LOCKED] "<source>" FOR {READ|WRITE|BOTH} AS #handle
>
> Where the OPEN fails if it can't get a file lock immediately after opening
> when LOCKED is specified.  The idea being to allow serialized/atomic file
> access sections (of course CLOSE would then have to be aware of locking
> and drop the lock after committing buffers but prior to making the close
> system call).
>
> > Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:58:55 -0400
> > From: Rob <sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...>
> > Reply-To: mailing list for gambas users
> >     <gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Changes in LINK
> >
> > On Saturday 28 October 2006 12:38, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > > I think I will invert the arguments, which will lead to source
> > > incompatibility between versions <= 1.9.45 and versions >=
> > > 1.9.46.
> > > What do you think about that?
> >
> > I think this is a good idea.  It's a shame you couldn't change
> > the TO keyword to something else so that rather than
> > accidentally creating backward links, old code just wouldn't
> > compile.
> >
> > Rob
> >
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