Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-03-03 Thread chromatic
On Friday 03 March 2006 02:41, Tim Bunce wrote: > Any news on this? Is it okay? Should I send it via parrotbug? It looked good to me. I say check it in and see what the smokes do. -- c

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-03-03 Thread Tim Bunce
Any news on this? Is it okay? Should I send it via parrotbug? Tim. On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:36:20PM +, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:04:59PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2006, at 18:29, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > > >The runtime dlfunc code will need to be altere

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-28 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:04:59PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > On Feb 14, 2006, at 18:29, Tim Bunce wrote: > > >The runtime dlfunc code will need to be altered to normalize away the > >trailing v so old code won't break. Should it warn about that? > > Yes, a warning please. Here's the patch.

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Feb 14, 2006, at 18:29, Tim Bunce wrote: I'll aim to work up a patch this week. Great, thanks. The runtime dlfunc code will need to be altered to normalize away the trailing v so old code won't break. Should it warn about that? Yes, a warning please. Tim. leo

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Feb 14, 2006, at 21:45, chromatic wrote: To avoid confusion, I suggest requiring that functions returning void always use 'v' and disallowing the signature ''. Exactly my thoughts too. leo

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 05:48, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > I'd say, we should drop all the '?v' variants. The extra 'v' doesn't > cover any information, it's just causing an init call to the argument > passing code. To avoid confusion, I suggest requiring that functions returning void always us

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:48:41PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Tim Bunce wrote: > >What's the difference between 'v' and '' for NCI function parameters? > > There isn't any, except the extra 'v' char. > > >I ask because both 'fv' and 'f' are in src/call_list.txt > > Yeah. > > >In fact there

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Tim Bunce wrote: What's the difference between 'v' and '' for NCI function parameters? There isn't any, except the extra 'v' char. I ask because both 'fv' and 'f' are in src/call_list.txt Yeah. In fact there are several 'duplicated' signatures: [ ... ] I'd say, we should drop all the '