SSVNs are an attempt to provide a "standard" way to provide access to some features that were previously provided in a non-standard way on different MUMPSen. Unfortunately, M standardizes the names of SSVNs but not their behavior, so they are effectively useless as standards - it's much easier to accommodate differences in syntax than it is differences in semantics.
GT.M does not support SSVNs, in part for this reason. There were/are also some security concerns with some SSVNs. -- Bhaskar On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 09:01 -0600, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2006, at 5:00 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > > > I'll be dumb. What is SSVN? > > > > Kevin > > SSVN = Structured System Variable Name. > > I'm told that GT.M doesn't support them (correct me if I'm wrong), > but if you're using Cache or another MUMPS implementation, you > might > try $ORDERing through > > ^$ROUTINE > ^$GLOBAL > ^$JOB > > These are kind of pseudo-globals that represent information about > the > system. For example, ^$JOB is something like the /proc filesystem > under Linux. > > When I get around to writing my own MUMPS implementation, I think > it > will need to support user-defined SSVNs. (Isn't that an oxymoron?) > > === > Gregory Woodhouse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Prediction is difficult, especially of the future." > --Niels Bohr ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
