On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:40:00 -0700, jfager wrote: > The basic idea is that a language could offer syntactic support for > declaring configurable points in the program. The language system would > then offer an api to allow the end user to discover a programs > configuration service, as well as a general api for providing > configuration values.
Completely coincidentally, a colleague forwarded me this cartoon about exposing program internals as the user interface: http://www.ok-cancel.com/comic/4.html I thought it was amusing, because I've seen programs just like that. Yes, even "GUI applications", where the developer thought that creating a user interface was exposing the values of internal variables to the user to modify directly. How does your proposal differ from that? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
