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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:17:35 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Dan Boger writes:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:49:18PM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin Clague writes:
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> > > Would the authors of LDraw compatible applications please list the
> > > meta-commands they have created? I will compile the list of applications and
> > > the meta-commands they define.
> >
> > One thing that I think would help reduce namespace pollution is if everyone
> > did what LTrax did... prefix the command with the app name for uniqueness.
> > Not a perfect solution, of course.
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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'?
Neither. You should PUBLICLY support the command and make it known that you
are doing so.
> I'm not sure what the best answer here is. Maybe aliasing (internally)
> '0 LTrax xxxx' to '0 FooCAD xxxx' does make sense?
maybe.
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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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