Re: [Oorexx-devel] Reworking rexxutil a little...

[Mark M. <mie...@gm...>]

Rick,

I think it would be better to remove the math functions from RexxUtil
and have them just in one place, the RxMath package.

Mike's idea for a fresh start/ cleaner match sounds good to me.

Of course, I'm sure there will be some complaint from someone whose
program(s) rely on the functions being in RexxUtil.  I would prefer to
try and convince those people that we need to be able to move forward
- not be tied too tightly to decisions made in the previous century.
<grin>

--
Mark Miesfeld

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Rick McGuire <obj...@gm...> wrote:
> I've got to make a number of changes to the rexxutil code to clean it up for
> the new package-loader.  This seems like an excellent time to split out the
> functions that are not truly system dependent.  I'd like to make rexxutil a
> dll that's built from a set of common extension functions (e.g.
> SysAddRexxMacro) linked with a functions that do require a platform-specific
> implementation (most of them, really).  The Windows version of rexxutil
> implements a set of math functions (SysPi(), etc.) that are not included in
> the unix version of rexxutil.  These functions largely duplicate the
> functions implemented by the RxMath package, so there's not an overwhelming
> need for these to be added to the unix rexxutil.  On the other hand, there's
> nothing at all platform-specific in these functions, so it would be a
> trivial matter to move these over into the common code module.
>
> One part of me says it would be good to make things more common between the
> two implementations.  Another part of me says these functions should be
> deprecated in favor of the RxMath versions, so we shouldn't propagate these
> to other platforms.  I'm interested in hearing how everybody else feels.  If
> the consensus appears split, I might ask for a formal vote on this.
>
> Rick
>
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