[vJASS] Where to put init function in library?

[sethmachine]

Hi,

I would like to know if this library would compile / work under my expected behavior.

I would test it myself but both my Windows machines are in repair and I haven't yet been able to compile/syntax check on the mac.

library myLib initializer init

globals
endglobals

function A …
…
endfunction

function init takes nothing returns nothing
call B()
…
endfunction

function B …
…
endfunction

endlibrary

In most code I always see the init function as the last. But I hope it does not matter where it is placed?

 

[pred1980]

library myLib initializer init

globals
endglobals

function A …
…
endfunction

function B …
…
endfunction

function init takes nothing returns nothing
call B()
…
endfunction

endlibrary

Always on the bottom.

 

[IcemanBo]

Basicly your init does not have to be the last function, but it would be more messy just to put it anywhere.

But still your problem is the restriction in jass that you can't use functions that are below in compiled code. So no matter if it's init or any other function, but if you call function B inside function X then B must be above function X.

That's the sense of libraries... to move the code above all others to make the functions inside available for all triggers. But inside a library the rule is of course the exactly same.

 

[edo494]

Basicly your init does not have to be the last function, but it would be more messy just to put it anywhere.

But still your problem is the restriction in jass that you can't use functions that are below in compiled code. So no matter if it's init or any other function, but if you call function B inside function X then B must be above function X.

That's the sense of libraries... to move the code above all others to make the functions inside available for all triggers. But inside a library the rule is of course the exactly same.

you can use(not directly call) functions that are below yours, but its about 4 times slower.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/submissions-414/system-customhero-251313/index2.html#post2522070

The rest of what Iceman said applies

 

[sethmachine]

Well wouldn't the vJass compiler know to put the init last when it turns the code into JASS, regardless of where it is?

 

[edo494]

no, unfortunarely it is not that smart. It will try to create copy of the function at the top of the map's script right below endglobals keyword, but at certain cases it can fail to call it and it will instead call trigger evaulation/exection with yet another copy of the function, which is a bit modified.

Check the post Ive made, it is apperant that one function got placed at the top and the other had to be TriggerEvaluate/Executed