On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Rony G. Flatscher<rony.flatsc...@wu-wien.ac.at> wrote: > It seems that ooRexx 4.0 removed the necessity of placing ::Requires > directives before any other directive. Two questions: > > Is this intended?
Yes, the restriction was artificial and has been removed. > If intended, is the behaviour like this? If not, what is the specified > behaviour (I could not find the respective documentation, but then, I may > just have missed it) There is no relationship between the placement of the ::requires directive within the file and the usage of any symbols imported by the directive. The ::requires directives are processed before any other directives, so all of the classes will be visible. This is the same bahavior as the past. > > The public and classes routines defined in a file "A" that gets ::Requires > can be referred to by the immediately following ::Class, ::Method and > ::Routine directives. > If another file "B" gets required thereafter, the immediately following > ::Class, ::Method and ::Routine directives would refer to "B"s public > classes and routines in the case that there are name clashes with once > defined in file "A". > > ---rony > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge > conference! > Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: > $250. > Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
