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

[Melanie]

I see not reason to not provide all library functions to all 
languages. Those that are unable to provide the required parameter 
types or unable to process the returned types will be inherently 
unable to use them, so there is no harm done.
It is a trade of an acceptable amount of namespace pollution for a 
lot of code simplicity.

Melanie


Sean Dague wrote:
> Mike Mazur wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Rob Smart <rob.s.smart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If we are to stick rigidly to LSL then they must be functionally equivalent
>>> which includes language and API access.
>> 
>> I disagree.
> 
> I'm with Mike here.  Scripting is made up of 2 things:
> 
> 1) A language
> 2) A Standard Library
> 
> A language is just base syntax.  It's how base types work, how it is
> compiled, etc.  It is the path to CIL.
> 
> Because we support 5 languages for scripting in OpenSim, the distinction
> here is a bit clearer.  All the Standard Library calls work across all
> the languages.
> 
> Some of our Standard Library clones the Linden standard library, because
> people seem to want that.  But we also have added a bunch of our own
> functions in, clearly marked, that do more.
> 
> That all being said, I think that brings us back to the original question:
> 
> Is there anything special we want to do if we make a standard library
> call that can't work in LSL, because it needs complex types?
> 
> 	-Sean
> 
> 
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