Daniel-Constantin Mierla writes: > rant?!? maybe you got the message wrong. It was about the purpose of > configuration file and the target users for it.
your message was very emotional. you defined the target users in your message. i have not seen that discussed or agreed earlier. my claim is that current config language very much resembles a programming language. > > please tell a non-programmer, how he/she can easily > > test if a var holds integer 0 value? > I don't see the relation of this question with auto-conversion debate > and type checking. it has, because if target is a non-programmer, then it should be very easy to do. that was the problem where this whole discussion started. > The variable is set somehow, either taken from database of directly in > config. Who does the logic know what comes there. If I do $var(x) = 1; I > know it is integer. I haven't found a need to test the type of variable > so far, but, if someone has an there is no function for finding out the > type of value, it can be written. here is a real world example for you: make a single htable query and find out, if the resulting value is string "0" or if there was no result at all. for performance reasons i don't accept answer where the query is done two times. > So, really, this is not anything like flame war, just making sure we > don't rewrite c interpreter, because nobody is going to use it. you are exaggerating. there is big difference between type safety and c language programming. -- juha _______________________________________________ SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list sr-users@lists.sip-router.org http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users
