[Oorexx-devel] Question ad .context~package in a required file, or: how to add a public routine dynamically and making it globally available in ooRexx 4.0 ?

[Rony G. F. <Ron...@wu...>]

Working on making the "log4rexx" framework (cf.
<http://wi.wu.ac.at:8002/rgf/rexx/orx18/log4r/>) usable under ooRexx 4.0
I am stumbling over a problem that has to do with the intent of making a
public routine dynamically available using ".context~package" and
addPublicRoutine(...).

This is the sequence of requiring files:

   1. "log4rexx.cls", which requires
         1. "log4rexx_logger.cls" which requires
               1. *"log4rexx_init.cls"* (defines dynamically public
                  routines via .context~package~addPublicRoutine(...) ) and
               2. "log4rexx_appender.cls" which requires
                     1. "log4rexx_filter.cls" and
                     2. "log4rexx_layout.cls"

When running the prologue code of "log4rexx_filter.cls" one of the
dynamically created routines (created in "log4rexx_init.cls") named
"pp()" is used, but ooRexx cannot find that routine in
"log4rexx_filter.cls". Is this intended by design (it seems so, just
wanted to be sure) ?

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In the pre-4.0 version the undocumented .PUBLIC_ROUTINES environment
symbol is used to define dynamically the public routine pp() in
"log4rexx_logger.cls", and it is afterwards globally available.

How could one achieve the same behaviour in ooRexx 4.0 (making sure a
dynamically added public routine is available globally from then on,
like it is the case with loading external Rexx functions dynamically)?

---rony