I really like this idea.
On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Terry Jones wrote:
Hi all
"Rick" == Rick R <[email protected]> writes:
Rick> I'm for it, as long as there is a --non-strict compiler mode
which
Rick> allowed older messages (but printed a warning)
I don't think I'd go that way. The main reasons are:
- the Thrift code base will become unclean due to supporting the
old and
the new ways of doing things, with deprecation warnings.
- if you let people just continue to use the more casual/lazy
style of IDL
spec, they will.
Seeing as the IDL file already gets parsed, it wouldn't be too hard to
write a tool that converts an old-style "lazy" IDL spec into a new-
style
more rigorous one (maintaining comments, whitespace, etc). That
would give
experienced Thrift users a way to easily upgrade. It would keep the
code
base clean. And it would have the desired effect on making
newcomers write
stricter Thrift specs.
Terry
