On 5/3/03 7:29, "Christopher Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pier Fumagalli wrote:
I know... But where can I read it? Where will our users be able to see that all those function they rely on are actually "implementation details" and that they shouldn't even touch them because we can remove them in the next release? (if the language doesn't allow you to specify that something is "private", it doesn't mean that you should be allowed to use it anyway).
Clearly, there needs to be much better documentation. And I do agree there can be a lot of cleanup in the implementation. And I think continued discussion can help improve the design. All of those things need to happen and hopefully will.
It's would be a very nice interface, but it is NOT what we have today... Apart from the sendPage*() stuff which are not there, we have _A_LOT_ of other attributes and functions accessible from that object... And I mean, A LOT. You listed one attribute and 5 functions, I count 8 attributes and 10 functions...
As nowhere it's said that "you shouldn't be allowed to use the rest", I started USING those in my own scripts... Now you're telling me that I might have to rewrite them because in the next version "they could not be there, renamed or stuff"???
It should be documented that the rest are "private" and as a normal user of the flow layer I think you probably shouldn't be using them. What did you use, and what did you use it for?
Regards,
Chris
