Finding circularities: maybe something like https://gist.github.com/4158963? Though it's not the smartest thing around (just because there's a vocab circularity doesn't mean there will necessarily be an issue with a word definition).
Avoiding circularities is really an engineering thing... Fixing circularities is trickier, and it'll generally vary case-by-case. Check out http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-deferred.html, perhaps? Good luck, --Alex Vondrak ________________________________________ From: Leon Konings [fac...@koningssoftware.com] Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 8:29 AM To: factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Factor-talk] Managing many vocabularies Hi Alexander, Thank you for your very long answer. You where guessing right about the circular dependencies. Because there are so many vocabularies, problems like that happen rather often. I am really looking for better and faster ways to find these, and a way of working that make it less likely that they happen. Best regards, Leon Quoting "Alexander J. Vondrak" <ajvond...@csupomona.edu>: > I'm not really sure if there was a question in there... > >> Loading all the vocabularies, which all load many other vocabularies, >> is not easy to do. > > If you're just sitting down at your editor, typing vocab names into the > `USING:` line, then yeah, it's going to be difficult to know exactly which > vocabs you're supposed to specify. That's why you use the listener. > > Say I'm working on a file, factor/work/blah/blah.factor. While I'm jotting > down some code, I either don't know what I need in the `USING:` or forget to > put something in there. > > USING: ; ! ??? > > "Blah" print > >> From the listener, I type `USE: blah`, and I get a helpful error message. > > IN: scratchpad USE: blah > Loading resource:work/blah/blah.factor > 1: USE: blah > ^ > resource:work/blah/blah.factor > > 1: "Blah" print > ^ > No word named “print” found in current vocabulary search path > > The following restarts are available: > > :1 Use the io vocabulary > :2 Defer word in current vocabulary > :3 Load resource:work/blah/blah.factor again > > Type :help for debugging help. > > It gives me several options to recover from this error, including a > suggestion > for which vocab to load to find the word `print` (note that this > doesn't always > work, if Factor can't find a particular word name in the current > search path). > In this case, I can type `:1` to use the `io` vocab. > > IN: scratchpad :1 > resource:work/blah/blah.factor:1: Note: > Added "io" vocabulary to search path > > Restarts were invoked adding vocabularies to the search path. > To avoid doing this in the future, add the following forms > at the top of the source file: > > USING: io ; > > Also, take a look at > http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-images.html and > http://docs.factorcode.org/content/word-auto-use__que__%2Cparser.html > >> I often have to solve problems with interdependencies. It is not >> easy to find >> the cause of these problems. > > What sort of problems? And what sort of interdependencies? Like vocabs > depending on vocabs? I struggle to think of a problem with that, because the > chain of dependencies shouldn't be an issue, unless there's a cycle. E.g., > > ! In a.factor > USING: b ; > IN: a > : a-word ( -- ) b-word ; > > ! In b.factor > USING: io ; > IN: b > : b-word ( -- ) "Called b-word" print ; > > ! At the listener > IN: scratchpad USE: a > Loading resource:work/a/a.factor > Loading resource:work/b/b.factor > IN: scratchpad a-word > Called b-word > > Notice that a.factor doesn't need to have `USING: io`, even though b.factor > does. So you don't need to think about anything beyond a file's immediate > dependencies. I guess there would be an issue if you had a cyclic > dependency, > which needs to be resolved manually (or, more practically speaking, removed): > > ! In a.factor > USING: b io ; > IN: a > > : a-word1 ( -- ) b-word ; > > : a-word2 ( -- ) "Called a-word2" print ; > > ! In b.factor > USING: a ; > > : b-word ( -- ) a-word2 ; > > ! At the listener > IN: scratchpad USE: a > Loading resource:work/a/a.factor > Loading resource:work/b/b.factor > 1: USE: a > ^ > resource:work/a/a.factor > > 1: USING: b io ; > ^ > resource:work/b/b.factor > > 4: : b-word ( -- ) a-word2 ; > ^ > No word named “a-word2” found in current vocabulary search path > > The following restarts are available: > > :1 Defer word in current vocabulary > :2 Load resource:work/b/b.factor again > :3 Load resource:work/a/a.factor again > > Type :help for debugging help. > IN: scratchpad :3 > Loading resource:work/a/a.factor > Loading resource:work/b/b.factor > Loading resource:work/a/a.factor > IN: scratchpad a-word1 > Called a-word2 > > Maybe by "interdependencies" you mean that vocabs can step on each others' > toes? If two vocabs define different words with the same name, there will be > an ambiguity. To resolve, see > http://docs.factorcode.org/content/word-FROM__colon__,syntax.html > >> In the developer tools I saw some interesting words for working with >> vocabularies. There might be a solution to my problem, if I use these >> tools, but I do not know where to start. > > Which interesting words? Sorry, I'm running out of psychic abilities. :) > > If you aren't sure what certain words do, it's helpful to browse > through their > documentation. Even if a word isn't quite what you want, there are usually > related things you can click on, looking for related words until you stumble > onto something useful. > > Hope any of that helps, > --Alex Vondrak > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single > web console. 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