Re: [apd][patch] Two new functions: override_constant() and rename_constant()

Hi Derick, Derick Rethans wrote: > Just wondering, but why the hell would you want to change *constants*? :) I once had such a situation while debugging a larger application whos programmer _really_ liked using constants and I wanted to change the bahaviour without breaking other modules so I had to change one constant all over this module. With such a function in a debugging extension I'd have changed the sources to see wether this really fixes my problem and then changed the source where needed and removed the renaming - but yes, these are very rare situations... (Another reason for these functions: I wasn't sure wether constants are replaced at compile or at runtime, but it looks like I'm not the only one who didn't know the answer to this question ;-)) btw. the original patch has - at least - two issues, which should be easyto fix (if someone is interestedin these..): - I don't set the module_number (I'm not sure wether an overriden internal constant is still an internal constant or an user-defined one) - override_constant() don't check wether the value is a valid data type so it is possible to put an object or an array into the constant (even though it seems to work, if one would call such a thing "constant"...) So, if someone is interested in this thing I can fix these things and create a new patch, otherways I put it into my patches directory and forget about it - I don't mind that much, it isn't my identity ;-) johannes