Re: [Plplot-devel] -eofill issues with -dev wxwidgets and possible rewrite of streams and src/plargs.c

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2017-10-01 09:49+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote:

[Alan said]
>> With regard to your remark concerning writing a plsfillrule() function
>> and systematically using it throughout src/plargs.c, I wouldn't want
>> to do that myself, but if you or Jim want to make such a change and it
>> passes comprehensive testing, I certainly would not object.
>
[Phil responded]
> I can add a new API function if you think it is useful, but I can only
> propagate it as far as the C and C++ APIs, someone else would have to
> propagate it to other languages as needed.
>

>From what has been said, my impression is a plsfillrule() function is
C-only functionality to make src/plargs.c easier to understand and use
correctly. If that impression is correct there should be no need to
propagate this functionality even to our C++ binding since all our 
bindings simply wrap the C plparseopts routine without knowing its
internal implementation details. But please educate me if that
impression is incorrect.

Alan
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