On Tue May 10 2011 Leo wrote: > On 2011-05-09 02:59 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: > > In principle there is no ambiguityconcerning lists and strings. All > > bbdb fields except for names and individual note fields are lists > > (and different notes are again forming a list). > > > > For your issue, a cleaner solution might be an optional argument > > merge for bbdb-record-set-field. That could make bbdb-annotate-notes > > completely obsolete. Do you want to look into this? > > OK, I'll look into this. > > Is the intention to extend BBDB-record-set-field to support setting > sub-fields of notes too?
...I just noticed a problem I had not realized before: Currently bbdb-record-set-field assumes that its arg VALUE takes values that are by themselves valid for the respective field of a record. For a merge that would probably not make sense as I assume that VALUE for a merge should be a string. So maybe it is better to put the extension we are thinking about into bbdb-merge-note: - If its arg LABEL is either affix, aka, organization, or mail, this function could add a new element to the list of values of the respective field. - IF LABEL is name (or firstname, lastname), phone or address, it throws an error. (Unless someone has a great idea how to handle these cases in a better way. Such things can always be extended later. -- BBDB would get very confused if there were also note subfields with such labels.) - Any other value of LABEL should correspond to a proper note, so that this function should keep doing what it is doing now. Does this make sense? Possibly, this extended function should then be called bbdb-merge-field. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
