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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
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:

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.

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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  Re: Calling all Meta-commands
 
(...) 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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