John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:24:04PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
[...] > If done properly, it should be a rather small amount of code per > procedure, easier to write than the corresponding formatting code > we have now, and much more flexible. > > I think that if the system is designed carefully, then this "code" > need be merely a bunch of metadata. In other words, put all the code > in the output engine, and make it flexible enough to be controlled by > some variables which are contained within or associated with the > relation. Encouraging procedure authors to write their own programs > for controlling the display, I think would be a bad thing. I agree that this is a situation to aspire to. My proposal is not yet concrete enough to figure out whether it is practical in every case. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
