[Opensim-dev] Command lines - use of hyphens and verb subject flipping

[Justin Clark-Casey]

No, the dispatch is based on the entire command that the module registers (e.g. "show object name" will only receive 
commands starting with the tokens "show", "object" and "name").

On 30/08/13 19:08, Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> I think the problem with verb-object is that the command handling code is designed such that multiple modules can add
> additional commands when they are instantiated, and Opensimulator uses the first word in the command to dispatch the
> command to whatever module "owns" it. If it were verb-object then it (currently) would not know how to dispatch the
> command as many modules could share the verb. It might be possible to rewrite the command dispatching code to handle the
> verb-object form but then existing modules that are not in core would need to be updated or their registered commands
> would not work.
>
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> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:57 AM, R.Gunther <rigun at rigutech.nl <mailto:rigun at rigutech.nl>> wrote:
>
>     i agree verb-object is a bit confuseing with typeing compared to verb object.
>     delete-region is for me not really logic, delete region is more clear.
>
>
>     On 2013-08-30 15:32, Ai Austin wrote:
>
>         At 11:00 30/08/2013, opensim-dev-request at lists.__berlios.de <mailto:opensim-dev-request at lists.berlios.de> wrote:
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>             I'm still not sure whether verb-object is better (e.g. send appearance) or object-verb (e.g. appearance send).
>
>
>         I strongly vote for verb object in such computer script languages.
>
>         This works well also where there are more than one main parameter too, as that can get confusing otherwise. Its
>         also the way most commands already are.
>
>         There are just a few hyphenated commands as you say.  I spotted delete-region and remove-region
>
>         command-script is an odd on as really its just run <script> script <script>  or command <script> ? But its one I
>         always seem to get wrong.  Leaving in a few problematic ones with hyphen and non-hyphen versions, but making the
>         help text and documentation give the definitive one to move forward with might be an approach?
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