[V4REV] Advice 2 about func names

[Trevor DeVore]

On May 12, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
> Not to rain on the parade but IMHO this increases chances of name  
> conflicts beyond comfortable and makes the code less self- 
> documenting. I rather type a few chars more.

It is really only a two character difference between the two  
variants.  I was just joking around about having to type less.  I do  
like the proposed syntax more than the Valentina("") stuff (just  
because it seems "right") but I could see how that could create  
problems for someone who has the code sprinkled all over their  
projects.  It really isn't a big deal either way for me.

> I sure hope you will let us to continue using Valentina 
> ("function",...) as it is now even if you go ahead with these new  
> calls. Aside the above points, having to recode some of my bigger  
> and older projects would be a big job.
>
> I also wonder about increased effort for you to maintain those new  
> functions, particularly when adding new functions. Won't you need  
> to have a series of externals instead of a single one? Or are you  
> planning to have a Valentina library that defines those as passthru  
> functions to the external?

In the code for an external you simply add a line of text that maps a  
function in your external to a transcript handler.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com