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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:26:48 GMT
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Dan Boger wrote:
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> except that if you do that, it discourages cross-tool commands. If I'm
> writing FooCAD, and I want to implement one of the LTrax commands,
> should I make a new command '0 FooCad xxxx'? should I secretly support
> the '0 LTrax xxxx'?
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> I'm not sure what the best answer here is. Maybe aliasing (internally)
> '0 LTrax xxxx' to '0 FooCAD xxxx' does make sense?
I think that, with a little investigation, each command might be
identified as 'general purpose' or 'application specific.' I think
that haveing the app-specific ones prefixed with the appname (or
even 'APP {appname}') isn't such a bad idea.
Also I think that having some sort of community discussion on the
general purpose commands might be a good idea in order to also
help keep the namespace polution to a minimum. But by using the
'APP {appname}' prefix app authors could add whatever they wanted
while keeping the polution confinde to a small metacommand sandbox.
If some app-specific command were found to be useful to more than
one program, there isn't any reason it couldn't be 'promoted' to
the general purpose level and have the prefix stripped.
-Kyle
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| In thinking about this a bit more, I flashed on a quote from Yoda in one of the Star Wars movies "Hard to see the future is".... I've added some meta-commands to the name space that are certainly specific to LPub and the creation of building (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) except that if you do that, it discourages cross-tool commands. If I'm writing FooCAD, and I want to implement one of the LTrax commands, should I make a new command '0 FooCad xxxx'? should I secretly support the '0 LTrax xxxx'? I'm not sure (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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