In order to do a lot of the other Clipper implementations, did the Harbour Project reverse engineer Clipper code, or was some source code donated from the original Clipper company? In this instance, would you have to just take an approximate guess as to how ACHOICE functions under any circumstance to try to be as close as possible to Clipper 5.3?
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Viktor Szakáts <harbour...@syenar.hu> wrote: > > I am curious about this ACHOICE stuff. It sounds as though Przemek > thought it needed to be rewritten from scratch. Is that a big project to > do, or likely to be done? I'm starting to think I'd be a lot more useful to > the Harbour Project if I was a good C programmer. > > ACHOICE() (and also MEMOEDIT()) needs to be rewritten from scratch > IMO too. Can't tell how much work is ACHOICE(), but to make such > effort useful, I'd estimate large part of the work to be pure testing > to trace back what exactly needs to be implemented and how, to be > perfectly Clipper compatible. > > These parts don't need any .c programming skills, it's currently > written in .prg and it's perfect if any new implementation also use > .prg code. > > Brgds, > Viktor > > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Viktor Szakáts <harbour...@syenar.hu> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I didn't miss them, but what I reported look like new > > errors after recent patches. > > > > Just run ac_test.prg, press <down>, then <up> -> RTE. > > > > It was okay in 2.0.0, but it's not okay in current trunk. > > > > Brgds, > > Viktor > > > > On 2010 Feb 6, at 16:22, smu johnson wrote: > > > > > Hi Viktor, see: > > > > > > > http://lists.harbour-project.org/pipermail/harbour/2010-February/031590.html > > > > > > > http://lists.harbour-project.org/pipermail/harbour/2010-February/031661.html > > > > > > In case you missed them. > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Viktor Szakáts <harbour...@syenar.hu> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > In recent SVN, tests/ac_test.prg shows some problems > > > with ACHOICE(). It doesn't initially show to > > > selecting and RTEs (Bound Error) after moving > > > around. > > > > > > Brgds, > > > Viktor > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > > > Harbour@harbour-project.org > > > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > smu johnson <smujohn...@gmail.com> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > > > Harbour@harbour-project.org > > > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > > Harbour@harbour-project.org > > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > > > > > > > > -- > > smu johnson <smujohn...@gmail.com> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > > Harbour@harbour-project.org > > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour > -- smu johnson <smujohn...@gmail.com>
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