Re: Basic Resource Grafting

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:10, David Crawshaw wrote:
> I've brought back some basic resource grafting

Excellent.  This (among other things) has been holding me back for
months.

> var r = xwt.graft(xwt._, "demo", xwt._.demo2);

[snip]

> Also note, the resource root has been moved to xwt._. Eventually 
> just referencing _.  should also work, but I haven't added that 
> in my patch yet.

It would be nice to come up with a cleaner way of doing this before the
Nitrogen API becomes stable.

It (_) is quite ugly and unwieldy.  Something like the oft-mentioned
'res' might be more appropriate.  We should remember our target audience
- to them a '_' is meaningless.  It is easier to convey meaning from a
word (or even a letter) and from a 'don't know the syntax' perspective,
words are much less intimidating than symbols.

- Charlie

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Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
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