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Re: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework


From: Mark Burgess
Subject: Re: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:48:21 +0100 (MET)

> My take on lists was something like:
> 
> control:
>    split = ( " " )
>    myvals = Split(a b c)
>    morevals = List( "var one", "var two", "var three" )

Yes, PHP does this well, using things like "list" and "split" to make things
explicit. This makes it easy for users to look up things in the manual -
because they can just search for the keyword. I like this.

> 
> Same otherwise. The idea being a heavier use of functions to get the data
> type you were after, pushing the burden out of the parser, keeping it
> minimal.

Minimal is god!

We want to make the code as small as possible, so that it will fit on
mobile phones, running Linux :)

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