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Re: Generating keyword parameters from strings [message #67504 is a reply to message #67458]

Thu, 30 July 2009 08:44

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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JD writes:

> If you think about it, there is no way (without inventing a new type
> of IDL variable) to simultaneously change the semantics of _EXTRA to
> allow passing by reference, and *not* break all of those sneaky codes
> which are poking around in _EXTRA structure themselves. So we have
> only ourselves to blame.

Instead of assigning blame, I prefer to think of it
as a perfect example of the evolutionary principle
in action. What can happen, will happen. :-)

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
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Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Generating keyword parameters from strings By: Eric Hudson on Wed, 22 July 2009 08:56
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		Re: Generating keyword parameters from strings By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 30 July 2009 08:55
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