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Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Sun, 16 Mar 2003 00:07:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes:
<snip>
Here is my suggestion (just a suggestion, mind you).  All future
meta-commands could look like the following:

0 {META} <command> [arguments]

Where the "0 {META} " signifies a meta-command (the spaces are both
required, but can be repeated), <command> is whatever the name of your
meta-command is, and [arguments] is the optional list of arguments.

I like this suggestion a lot.  It solves most of the problems we've been
discussing about namespace pollution.

-Orion



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  Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
 
(...) Having read the other replies to this post, I feel that--no matter how well-intentioned--putting a lock on new meta-commands is both wrong and impractical. The simple fact is that all LDraw-based development is done voluntarily. As such, it's (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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