Re: [Fxruby-users] Message Identifiers, Types, etc again.

[Hugh S. S. E. E. <hg...@dm...>]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote [about docs needing fixing]
>
>
> I agree that the documentation on the FOX web site doesn't tell the
> whole story about how message identifiers are used, and instead focuses
> on one particular use. Obviously, if the *only* purpose of the message

Then maybe the fact of this focus should be more explicit.
It's not easy to document things, of course: the *original* Murphy's
law was about people's amazing ability to misunderstand things.
Other remarks about "not being able to make things foolproof because
fools are so ingenious" come to mind, too!

> identifier were to distinguish between senders, you could arguably just
> hang on to a reference to the sender object(s) and compare them when you
> get a message:
        [dispatch on sender code]

>
> But as I (hopefully) explained in my previous response, that in fact
> isn't the whole story when it comes to message identifiers ;)

It is becoming clearer.  Thank you.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle
>
        Hugh
>