Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, michael.vancann...@wisa.be said:
Categorizing routines, with subcategs if need be will be trouble enough,
specially if you want to do it future proof (and also be able to flag the static
method approach that Delphi current favours)
OK, that was totally chinese. I'll have to ask my chinese pillow to
translate this.
I mean procedures and functions is not enough. It must be possible to add
static methods to this categorization system too (to be visible in the same
overviews as normal functions), because newer delphi versions stuff all new
routines as static methods into classes, and sooner or later we will have to
deal with that too.
With subcateg(ory)s I meant that simply one dimensional tagging might not be
enough. You might want to have a broad category with several smaller ones
nested in it.
The problems with tagging etc. are that (a) somebody's got to do the
work retroactively and (b) there's a temptation to fit things into
existing categories (should Soundex support go into sorting, hashing, or
its own category?).
As a user with limited experience, I'd settle for something that
generated a simple KWIC list, even if I had to manually exclude some
possibilities.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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