Today you sent me mail regarding Re: [rrd-developers] Re: proposal for...: *> > From: Tobias Oetiker *> > sure ... I just think that it is pretty simple to have a single function *> > which does both ... you can give it either the name of an RRD or an AT-Time *> > descr ... (argument overloading) *> *> Understood. But, imo, positional parameter overloading is *> really Evil. *> *> For example: I think new users scanning the rrdcgi doc looking *> to pretty-print 'rrdtool last some.rrd' will skip right past *> "<RRD::TIMESTR>". *> *> If I scan rrdcgi doc and see "<RRD::TIME::TIMESTR>", I think my *> reaction would be "ahh, for printing time strings" and my reaction *> to "<RRD::TIME::LAST>" would be "cool, for printing the last update *> time for an RRD".
OK got a point there ... OK lets do it like that ... cheers tobi *> *> I will say no more until I can send along a patch kit. *> *> later *> steve *> - - - *> systems guy *> wiscnet.net *> -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker, Timelord & SysMgr @ EE-Dept ETH-Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / TEL: +41(0)1-6325286 FAX:...1517 ICQ: 10419518 /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker -- * To unsubscribe from the rrd-developers mailing list, send a message with the subject: unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
