Problem with fix directive/How to hide macroses

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LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug

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Posts: 4623
Location: Argentina

LocoDelAssembly 12 Jul 2007, 22:08

Hello. I'm trying to hide some macroses to limit its scopes. The problem is that I don't know how to do this without touching the include file. The idea I had was using fix directive but it doesn't work

Code:

irps macroName, test mov load
{
forward
local priv

  macroName fix priv
}

The fix has no effect, if I do "macro a{display `test}a" only displays "test". Changing "`test" with "`macroName" displays "priv" (so the definition doesn't get really local). If in the IRPS I add a slash at "macroName fix priv" fix doesn't take effect anymore (no error, nothing fixed at all).

Should I give up? I'm out of ideas of how to make already written macroses available only for a certain part of code. Note that I can't use purge on those private macroses because them are used inside macroses that are public so I can only "unfix" them when I finish to define the public ones.

Thanks for any help on this problem.

12 Jul 2007, 22:08

vid
Verbosity in development

Joined: 05 Sep 2003
Posts: 7103
Location: Slovakia

vid 12 Jul 2007, 23:28

if you are using them only in few macros, then you can define and undefine them inside macro which uses them:

(code not tested)

Code:

macro define_private {
  macro private \{
    ...
  \}
}

macro something1 {
  define_private
  ...
  purge private
}

macro something2 {
  define_private
  ...
  purge private
}

something1 ;works
something2 ;works
private ;causes error

12 Jul 2007, 23:28

LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug

Joined: 06 May 2005
Posts: 4623
Location: Argentina

LocoDelAssembly 12 Jul 2007, 23:48

Not only are not few but them also define many sub macroses and others preprocessor constructs (there are things like "\\\\\{" already).

Another things that doesn't work are

Code:

macro private {
local priv
  macro fix macro priv
}

and

Code:

macro private {
local priv
  macro fix macro priv#
}

The latter because unfortunatelly the # is not available outside macroses (but even if it were working the resulting name would be "privname" and not "priv?XXXXXXXXname" Sad

Thanks for the idea anyway.

12 Jul 2007, 23:48

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