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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Shared IDCMP Ports--Proposal
Summary: Coding style...
Message-ID: <7462@well.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 09:14:29 GMT
References: <3031@amiga.UUCP> <7412@well.UUCP> <3037@amiga.UUCP> <7439@well.UUCP> <3051@amiga.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <3051@amiga.UUCP> jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
>In article <7439@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>)	Since all programs would be doing this, and all programs obeyed the
>)same exact commands,
>
>Freeze it here, Eddie.  I am all for common command sets, but we don't have
>them.

	I know.  It was *merely* an idea, that's all.  Nobody I told ever
seemed to like it, so I guess it must have been a pretty lousy one.

	[ Actually, we do have a form of common command set: The commands
sent to Exec devices. ]

>)	I usually put it in for debugging reasons, and then never bother to
>)take it out since it's "never" going to get called anyway.  It's helped *me*
>)out on a few occasions.  And my die() routines are scientifically designed
>)to kill the program coherently, leaving you with a useable machine.
>)So there.	:-)
>
>Leo Schwab, Software Assassin.  I like it it.  It has a good beat and you
>can dance to it.
>
	This is something we'll have to talk about in person, since it
appears to be an important point, but let me attempt to justify the
maneuver:

	When you open a Window, you specify to Intuition what IDCMP events
you wish to receive.  I interpret that to mean that I will receive *only*
those events that I asked for.  If I receive something I didn't ask for, I
want to know about it.  Hence, the die() directive.

	If it helps you sleep better, I will make sure there are no such
constructs in Onion.

>What I put in my default case is:
>
>    default:
>	serout = fopen( "ser:", "w" );
>	fprintf( serout, "atdt14085553303\n");
>	fprintf( serout, "guru\nbloodlust\n");
>	fprintf( serout, "mail jimm\n");
>	fprintf( serout, "Someone sent me an unrecognized IDCMP message!!\n.\n");
>	fprintf( serout, "logout\n");
>	fprintf( serout, "ath\n");
>	Alert( AN_DOSNOMEMORY );
>
	Ah.  You've read the source to Robotroff, I see.....		:-)

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