[Opensim-dev] Place for osFoo functions that only work with certain languages

[Mike Mazur]

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:59:59 +0100
"Rob Smart" <rob.s.smart at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to support the osParseJSON function in LSL as well as C#
> script making it more available.
> 
> ...
> 
> I'd certainly be interested in more dopwerful datatypes being
> introduced to LSL, the two in particular I'd
> need to implement would be System.Collections.Hashtable and
> System.Collections.ListArray.

I don't mean to pick on you specifically, Rob, but I'm not a fan of
extending LSL in any way.

LSL is Linden Scripting Language, and the authority on this is Linden
Labs. If we start adding new features to LSL, it ceases to become LSL.
It becomes LSL++ or something like that.

So, since you require these additional features, why not use one of the
alternative scripting languages supported by OpenSim? JavaScript
supports JSON rather well if I'm not mistaken.

I understand that LSL is simple and this is an appealing feature to
non-programmers. Perhaps an OpenSim specific script language should be
developed, with these additional features, which can fill this niche?

Mike