Re: [ZE-dev] Some requests

[James T. <ja...@co...>]

>>>- 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().
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>>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.
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>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
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>it is trivial to implement it :)
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Sorry, I'm really not liking the idea, and since certain functions need 
to return real values I don't know what to do. 
The syntax seems more awkward and hardly useful.  Sorry, I'm going to 
have to pass on this feature unless anybody
can offer a real justification.

>>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.
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>I am not familiar with them either, although i develop on Linux...
>If you wanna learn it then check out this excellent book (it is free !)
>http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/download.html
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Thanks for the reference to the book, I'll look into it as soon as I get 
a chance.