On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:01:13PM +0200, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > hi, > > if I understand correctly, the :immediate pragma makes the sub which has > this pragma run immediately after parsing (well, at least before running > the program) > > Suppose I have this code: > > .sub loadstuff :immediate > # load stuff > .end > > .sub main > dostuff( ) > end > .end > > Then, running this code will start running the loadstuff( ) again > (because main doesn't have the :main pragma, and loadstuff() is at the > top of the file). > My concern is, is this the desired effect? Shouldn't the :immediate subs > only be run once? So, in effect shouldn't they be skipped (if they're at > the top of the file, where execution starts when :main is missing) when > running the program?
I'm a fan of explicitness and orthogonality -- I don't see that ":immediate" should silently imply "and don't use this sub as :main". If a sub other than the first one listed is main, mark it as ":main" and be done with it. Pm
