Re: [rdl-devel] Little Update

[R.S. S. <rss...@ya...>]

--- Dave Gill <dav...@bl...> wrote:
> 
> I have 'want' in my environment but it needs some work
> doing on it to
> make it Linux friendly. 

I asked about this on the want mailing list. In the mean
time, do we have an alternative? The thing is, I don't care
much for make.


> The nagging
> thing is that the Libraries of source code it relies on,
> after a cursory
> glance, look windows specific.  
> Not sure how much time I
> should spend on
> that to be honest. I know the task is assigned to me so
> do you want me
> to hack want into Linux shape?

I took a quick look, and it seems to me that the only thing
that is Win32 specific is the Crt32 unit. Am I right?

This should be relatively easy to port using curses? Or
maybe even just using plain WriteLns to get it running
quickly? Do you want (no pun intended) to spend a little
time on it?


> I also had a look at some of the source code in CVS and
> my only
> immediate comment would be around variable naming. Can we
> use some
> prefix for the variable names to show scope and type? 

I'm not a big fan of Hungarian notation. The idea of having
to rename my variable when the type changes, yuck.

Knowing the scope can be helpfull. For this, I use the
following simple scheme:
- local variables start with a lowercase letter
- arguments to a routine start with an lowercase 'a'
followed by an uppercase letter
- properties start with an uppercase letter
- module level variables (globals defined in the
implementation) start with 'MODULE_'
- global variables (which I hope we won't be using) start
with 'GLOBAL_'

What do you think?


> I know for
> Instantiated objects that type is a bit of a nonsense but
> we could
> prefix it with a 'c' so in long lines of code we know
> what we are dealing with.

I prefer not to have long lines of code ;-) Really, when
the code becomes obscure enough that these things start to
matter, I think you are way beyond the point where
refactoring for clarity is wanted.


> Do we have an example RDL document
> to look at? 

Yes, it's in /example.


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