Re: [ZE-dev] Some requests

[Filippos P. <css...@cs...>]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, James Turk wrote:

> > - First of all i see that most of the function members return void. I am
> >not a C++ guru so maybe i am wrong but wouldn't be better if they returned
> >a reference to the object ? In this way we could do
> >object.func1().func2()...funcN().
> >
> >
> Where would this syntax come in handy? I've never really heard of this,
> but that doesn't mean it can't/won't be done.
>  I'm just not clear on what type of functions you'd like to see this
> behavior available for, a small example would help.


I dont have something in mind. I just think that this would be a good
feature because in the future someone may wanna use it. On the other hand
it is trivial to implement it :)



> I do most of my development on Windows, so the Linux build system is
> lacking.  I'm not familiar with configure scripts,
> but when I began ZEngine I was hardly familiar with Make, so that won't
> keep me from adding a configure script.
> Sorry about the ../zlib/unzip.h, that was added when I was first adding
> the code, and I accidentally let it into the release,
> it's already fixed in my local copy of the source.
>

I am not familiar with them either, although i develop on Linux...
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