I added an #include-once directive and let it default to "no" (current behavior). Also added was a program argument to change the default behavior if one so desires [me]. Testing done as well.
http://pastebin.com/5Mfrvzdw Regards, Enoch. Keith Amidon <cama...@picnicpark.org> writes: > {-- Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:52:45 -0400: Enoch <i...@hotmail.com> wrote: --} > > Enoch> As this is our first direct communication, thank you for contributing > Enoch> the shell. > > Thanks for your appreciation. I've really enjoyed working on my amforth > projects and just wish I had more time for them. ;-) > > Enoch> I did read your other thoughts. It raises intersting questions > regarding > Enoch> the future role of the shell in AmForth development. Is it an > essential > Enoch> tool or "just" a convenience. > > Personally, I think it is important that the shell is *always* just a > convenience. My suggested implementation was intended to maintain that > property. > > My reasoning for the "#require" suggested implementation with the > special word to indicate something was uploaded was that the only way to > reliably know what has been uploaded to the microcontroller is to ask > it. Anything else is vulnerably to shell restarts, microcontroller > re-flashes, etc. > > My reasoning with the "#include" suggestions was motivated purely by my > own workflow. I pretty much manually do all the things I suggested the > shell do and I find that process to be error-prone. Trying to automate > it using the existing support in the shell is doable (e.g. by having it > ignore the error from the next command when calling the marker word) but > results in output errors when the markers aren't present. I'd like to > avoid that error output since the primary expected users of the > libraries I've created are very inexperienced. > > --- Keith > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
