Patrick Lightbody wrote:
Since "that" hasn't gone in to a real release, I'm totally happy to
change the name. Top or t will probably be what I go with.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Dawson Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OS-webwork] that keyword...
I am sorry to bring up what must be a topic people are sick of by now.... but why "that" for the top of the value stack --
there are other words that would be better. "that" sounds like a bad joke.
how about "top"
"stackTop"
or something similar. (even better would be a 1 character keyword).
I understand that this might break some code, but the "that" keyword seems so wrong. The people I have talked to about it seem to either think that the "that" keyword is either a bad joke or when talking about someone is refering to something else. ie that is how you do it -- I have seen alot of "interesting" changes made between webwork 1 and 2 and would find that the expression language change to OGNL one of the more frustrating.
I can understand that the webwork 1 expression language didn't always follow what Ruby people love to call the "principal of least suprise", a good quality for any API, but as a general rule, it was good at working with a ValueStack. OGNL seems to be a good object navigation language, but I don't think that the value stack interaction is right. Treating the stack as an array in OGNL feels wrong to me. I know that the use of "." for the top of the stack doesn't make sense with OGNL, but would love it if one of the smart people out there could come up with something that did.
I apolagise for the length of that and the ranty nature of the e-mail. WebWork 1 is a great framework, WebWork2 adds some nice features, and I want the best for it (honest :)).
Rob
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