On Nov 18, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Matthias Vallentin <[email protected]> wrote:
> There exists no dedicated handle type in Bro, > although it wouldn't be complicated to add one. Yes, having a handle type in Bro would be incredibly handy. > I am encountering this during the review of Soumya's cardinality counter > code. Before continuing with the merge, I propose to add a dedicated > opaque type that has the form: > > opaque of T Not sure I like this. It seems too similar to the current syntax of tables and vectors (I do want to see the vector syntax eventually though). It looks like T would be a yield value. In the spirit of keeping the discussion going I'll try and propose an alternate syntax. :) > md5_hash_init(idx: opaque of MD5): bool opaque<MD5> I'm not sure I like this either because it would be adding new tokens to the parser, but it is a pretty new concept to add to Bro too. .Seth -- Seth Hall International Computer Science Institute (Bro) because everyone has a network http://www.bro-ids.org/ _______________________________________________ bro-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/bro-dev
