[Vm-dev] Re: adding external plugins to Squeak 4.2 on the Mac

[Eliot Miranda]

OK, then how about -printSysAttributes and include in the help that there's
lots of useful info, and have the printing code include helpful text such as

interpreter proxy version major: 1 minor: 12

etc?

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 19 July 2011 09:55, Stefan Marr <squeak at stefan-marr.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> > On 19/07/11 02:59, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> How about a command-line argument that prints/answers a system
> attribute?
> >>  The system attributes are just strings, so they can be printed without
> >> loading an image etc.  It won't look as nice as myvm -printProxyversion,
> >> it'll look like myvm -sysattr 1010 -sysattr 1011, but it'll be general.
> >
> > Since I am currently again frustrated with 'someone else system', please
> > keep in mind that 'Sunday programmers' like me will understand
> > -printProxyversion without needing to search for it on the internet, but
> > sysattr 1011 is not directly useful, except if the command-line would
> also
> > provide a mechanism to translate that code to something understandable.
> >
>
> Same for me. I don't see why it needs to be obscure, if we can use
> symbolic names instead of numbers.
> After all, we making these interfaces for humans, not for machine.
>
> We have different positions on that with Eliot:
> Eliot  adding new numbers by extending existing interface (to access
> the system attributes).
> While i think that it would be better to have primitives with
> corresponding names, which explaining what attribute value it
> returns and what it serves for.
>
> IMO, saving developer's time is much better than saving few bytes in
> VM binary (because of using numbers instead of name).
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>



-- 
best,
Eliot
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