Re: Context aliases

2006-11-08 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg escreveu: However, aliases are not much used in the back-end; so we could still do the API minimisation (i.e., move aliases to context_handle, and make sure all alias calculations happen on the iteration side). The only problematic part I found in the back-end was the autoAccident

Re: Context aliases

2006-11-07 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:22, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Erik Sandberg escreveu: > > On Monday 06 November 2006 17:02, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > >> Erik Sandberg escreveu: > > I think this will be an improvement, because we remove the concept of > > aliases, which confuses users (at lea

Re: Context aliases

2006-11-07 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg escreveu: On Monday 06 November 2006 17:02, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: Erik Sandberg escreveu: I think this will be an improvement, because we remove the concept of aliases, which confuses users (at least it confuses me a bit); in addition we don't need to do anything extra to softco

Re: Context aliases

2006-11-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 06 November 2006 17:02, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Erik Sandberg escreveu: > >>> I think this will be an improvement, because we remove the concept of > >>> aliases, which confuses users (at least it confuses me a bit); in > >>> addition we don't need to do anything extra to softcode alias

Re: Context aliases

2006-11-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg escreveu: I think this will be an improvement, because we remove the concept of aliases, which confuses users (at least it confuses me a bit); in addition we don't need to do anything extra to softcode aliases. I don't understand. How will this work in practice? Ie. if I do \

Re: Context aliases

2006-11-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
On Monday 06 November 2006 13:04, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Erik Sandberg escreveu: > > hi, > > > > In my quest for softcoding context-defs, I will need to revisit the > > \alias system. This is not on the top of my todo, but I'd like to hear > > any protests early. > > > > I suggest that the \alia

Re: Context aliases

2006-11-06 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Erik Sandberg escreveu: hi, In my quest for softcoding context-defs, I will need to revisit the \alias system. This is not on the top of my todo, but I'd like to hear any protests early. I suggest that the \alias mechanism is scrapped altogether, and replaced with something else: - junk Bo

Context aliases

2006-11-06 Thread Erik Sandberg
hi, In my quest for softcoding context-defs, I will need to revisit the \alias system. This is not on the top of my todo, but I'd like to hear any protests early. I suggest that the \alias mechanism is scrapped altogether, and replaced with something else: - junk Bottom alias, instead make is_