mulix
Sun, 05 Aug 2001 13:44:28 -0700
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > I figure that in the cases where a direction is forced, then if you > temporarily disable biditext, you would expect it to have the same forced > base direction. This seems like a sane behaviour the latest r2llib (0.21) does this. > Actually, of switches come cheaply, then maybe it is better to have three: > > disable/enable > > neutral/set base dir > > rtl/ltr > > Anything with more than two states seems to me as less intuitive. sorry, i'm afraid i do not follow you here. > > > 3. another problem with r2llib's interface - either you always use r2l and > > > l2r, or you always use rtl and ltr - don't mix the 2 - i keep getting > > > confused! :) > > > > function names begin with r2l_xxx_xxx(). the r2l opaque token each > > function receives is named rtl, since i dislike variables with digits > > int their names. > > I've already done to many typos with this '2'. > > Anybody else for a mass renaming s/r2l/rtl/ ? ahm, i find the current r2l/rtl schema useful and elegant, but that's kind of a given, since i thought it up :) if anyone else finds it confusing, or misleading, i will do the mass renaming - just let me know. -- mulix http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead