One of the greatest things about C or PHP is being
able to include other code files. ZPE has supported libraries since a minor version of version 1.3
and yet as of version 1.5, it has no way to include a script,
other than the
run_script function.
To make development of larger applications more efficient,
ZPE 1.5.1 and onward feature the includes keyword.
This keyword signifies to the compiler to include a
file's contents. The file should be UTF-8 text but the extension does not
matter.
It's really easy to use the new feature by simply using:
includes "file_to_include.txt"
Inclusion is done at parse time (the step before compliation) and therefore if a program is compiled with a file included the file cannot be modified after.
If the file contains valid ZPE/YASS code, the code is included as part of the main application script and compiled as part of it.
