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Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto [message #63783 is a reply to message #63681]

Thu, 20 November 2008 01:11

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Jeremy Bailin schrieb:
>> 13.) Add the "dimension" positional parameter (as present in TOTAL) to
>> MEAN, STDDEV and so forth.
>
> Hear hear!
>
>> 14.) make it possible that we can have the last dimension 1.
>> Everyone who dislikes it can use reform. I can't remember how often this
>> misbehaviour has created funny results (bugs).
>
> I don't know... about half the time, I love how it works now, and the
> other half the time (like when I was debugging last night) I swear
> ferociously at it. In any case, that almost certainly falls under the
> category of would-break-too-much-existing-code.
>
> -Jeremy.

Hi Jermey

idl is an interpretive language. It is parsed line by line.

would-break-too-much-existing-code is a wrong statement. It needs only
more effort.

If one changes the code rules behaviour he can also write a migration
tool which converts your old program into a better new program.

But this wasn't also done by this company in the past, so we can assume
it won't be in the future.

And it is not unusual to do so. e.g. if the moinmoin wikisoftware
project changes the wiki text syntax in a newer version we provide a
migration tool for the old wiki text syntax on pages to the new syntax.

cheers
Reimar

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		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 19 November 2008 06:28
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: R.Bauer on Tue, 18 November 2008 13:34
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: weitkamp on Tue, 18 November 2008 12:56
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: R.Bauer on Tue, 18 November 2008 12:41
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 November 2008 11:13
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: pgrigis on Tue, 18 November 2008 11:08
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 November 2008 09:37
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Mon, 17 November 2008 12:40
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: lbnc on Mon, 17 November 2008 22:18
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: David Fanning on Mon, 17 November 2008 10:01
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: wlandsman on Wed, 19 November 2008 09:24
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: R.Bauer on Thu, 20 November 2008 01:11
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 20 November 2008 08:42

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