On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:08:38PM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On 6 Aug 2004, at 08:53, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > >Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > >>And easier to implement in C. > > > >I never found any difficulties in the methods handling properties? > > It's the difference between implementing a function called xyz and > doing a string comparison for xyz. It's easier to make it more modular > if you have separate functions, compared to a big honking dispatch > table. It's minor quibbles though.
It would be trivial for a driver to implement FETCH via a redispatch to functions using the name of the attribute. Probably just a few lines of code. Tim.