I understand that in FOX, the SELTYPE and SELID methods are used to extract the type and identifer from a message selector value. I wonder why those methods are named FXSELTYPE and FXSELID in fxruby. Was there a reason to add the "FX" prefixes? -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc.
On Mar 27, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote:> I understand that in FOX, the SELTYPE and SELID methods are used to > extract the type and identifer from a message selector value. I wonder > why those methods are named FXSELTYPE and FXSELID in fxruby. Was there > a reason to add the "FX" prefixes?In FOX 1.0, those methods were named SELID and SELTYPE. Their names were changed to FXSELID and FXSELTYPE in FOX 1.2. I assume that Jeroen changed the names to avoid a potential name clash, but you''d need to ask him.
On 3/27/06, Lyle Johnson <lyle at knology.net> wrote:> > On Mar 27, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote: > > > I understand that in FOX, the SELTYPE and SELID methods are used to > > extract the type and identifer from a message selector value. I wonder > > why those methods are named FXSELTYPE and FXSELID in fxruby. Was there > > a reason to add the "FX" prefixes? > > In FOX 1.0, those methods were named SELID and SELTYPE. Their names > were changed to FXSELID and FXSELTYPE in FOX 1.2. I assume that Jeroen > changed the names to avoid a potential name clash, but you''d need to > ask him.Ah, so it''s not unique to fxruby. That''s good to know. -- R. Mark Volkmann Object Computing, Inc.
Lyle Johnson wrote:> On Mar 27, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote: > >> I understand that in FOX, the SELTYPE and SELID methods are used to >> extract the type and identifer from a message selector value. I wonder >> why those methods are named FXSELTYPE and FXSELID in fxruby. Was there >> a reason to add the "FX" prefixes? > > In FOX 1.0, those methods were named SELID and SELTYPE. Their names > were changed to FXSELID and FXSELTYPE in FOX 1.2. I assume that Jeroen > changed the names to avoid a potential name clash, but you''d need to > ask him.Any idea why they show up as SELID and SELTYPE in the 1.4.4 gem docs? I''m looking under the Fox module, and almost everthing is FXsomething or fxsomething. But a few (including these) do not have the prefix. -- vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
On Mar 27, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:> Any idea why they show up as SELID and SELTYPE in the 1.4.4 gem docs?Ah, that''s a typo. Their real names are FXSELTYPE and FXSELID, but I must have overlooked this change in the RDocs.