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Anthony or Uli: ... but internally it would still be
some sort of global, even if it doesn't pollute the
scripter's namespace for globals.
Alain: I have no problem with globals that are
internal to the OpenKard application.
Anthony or Uli: Somehow I don't think the scripters
care about our
1. Do I spend most of my time coding intuitively,
then document my resulting work later? And,
consequently, docs always lags ... Why wait for the
docs to be ready to release the software?
2. Or do I design everything on paper beforehand
and maintain this documentation during my
Alain: A regexp package for C/C++, correct? If so,
then things couldn't be better.
Anthony: Except that regexp is slow. I don't really
need it -- at least not for what I'm doing now.
Alain: the short answer is YES then.
Anthony: You won't have to learn much C++. You'll have
to learn the
But it'd be hard to convert everything to text form -- e.g., how do you
convert a 24-bit pixmap to text?
Anthony,
not a problem. Since our variables have no problem with NULL characters,
we'd just need something like the pictureData property (which returns a
long stream of bytes representing
