Re: [binarycloud-dev] A Request for "A Standard"

[Justin F. <je...@ey...>]

Alex:

Ummm, this discussion/interchange has been interesting for
me.  Lordy, there are things I haven't thought about that
BC is going to allow.  This bloody BC is as accommodating
as a Bangkok cathouse.  I have to confess that I didn't
even consider a 1st-loaded library class to serve for my,
er, what shall I say, "global-but-not-global-scope" storage place.
In a way, I have sinned by suggesting global scope,
something that is a no-no in C.  Mea culpa.

And, well, I am starting to think about the wonderful
possibilities of calling $some_module->Init($options)
from elsewhere (anywhere if loaded later) just to get
different data from that module's Init(), that, with an
option "directive", would store it in, say, a variable in a
1st-loaded library class variable.  Like you say,
of course, these mothers can already talk globally
and tete-a-tete.  I see now that I don't need a
global BC_LUNCHBOX which now seems to appear to me as
a kind of vulgar cut buffer. [NOW DEPRECATED]

I can see/understand your "dilemma" about possibly
establishing a kind of standard class/library that is
loaded on initialization by BC.  What I hope is that
the design will somehow be such that module writers
all over the place will _tend_ to do data passing in
a kind of "standard" way, that will allow a minimum
of rewriting for local conditions.  This is the ultimate attractiviness
of BC for someone, who, for example, needs some  M$Word guru
somewhere, someplace, to contribute a WORD.DOC to
HTML translation module.  I certainly could not do it,
and therefore I am going to have to depend upon the
kindness of strangers.

Don't let me slow you down on unimportant matters right
now, but, what is going to be the infrastructure
or place for contributed modules?

We fantisize a lot here about BC.  We were blue-sky-ing
the other day about a kind of "Module Browser", and
an application that could select modules and then
build a site.  We could put this on a laptop and
Marketing could prototype a site on the spot with
a customer.  The PROBLEM is, shall we say, is that
living here in the South, the customer would likely
say, "Sheeeat, I ain't a-gonna pay you XX thousand fer
that, ya jes built it in 5 minutes....".

That last paragraph was for levity only.

Regards,

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