On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM, David Brownell <davi...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> On Monday 28 September 2009, Ųyvind Harboe wrote:
>> >> Is this the expected behaviour now, as previous versions would fail 
>> >> silently
>> >> if no id was given.
>> >
>> > I changed that when I changed it to make sure it didn't
>> > drop messages in various cases.  I think it's better to
>> > get the config files updated, so startup verification
>> > can do a better job, but I might be persuaded otherwise.
>>
>> It should at least be *possible* not to check the ID's even
>> if one is strongly encouraged(kind word and a gun) to
>> add them...
>
> By "not check" you must mean some more complex conditional than
> is there now ... it'd obviously have to check to see whether it
> should "not check"!  Else it'd be "never check".  Maybe you just
> want to suppress the warning?

"not check" means simply list the TAP ID (if any) and not
to fail examine.

> Now, I'd contend that all those are handled well just now.

It's not what we think of that will get us, it's what we don't
think off.

E.g. I can easily think of a situation where it is not practical
to check for the id code, or in the future where we want to
*read* the id code and have some conditional behavior scripted.

> Would handling "-expected-id 0" as a "match anything" wildcard
> suit, as an explicit "stifle warnings" option for (2a) or, in
> fact, any branch of (2)?

Don't override the meaning of integers, use a separate keyword :-)



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Øyvind Harboe
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