Re: Enhancing StarBasic then ? (Re: [api-dev] use of css.container.EnumerableMap

Hi Andreas,

>  >> Il 21/12/2010 10:25, Frank Schönheit ha scritto:
>  >>> as I was the one who wrote this service (out of a particular need):
>  >>> Sorry, I wasn't aware that Type is such a ... difficult thing in Basic.
>  >>> I'll keep that in mind for the next API I design :-\
> 
> This is the wrong way, I think. Handling type correctly clearly is a
> problem that has to be solved in Basic. Other problems in other lan-
> guage bindings have to be solved there. Otherwise designing new API
> would end up in painfully searching a way around all kind of obstac-
> les that may be set by different language bindings. Not very nice. :-)

Sorry, I wasn't precise here: Of course the root cause should be fixed
in Basic's UNO binding (and I like your ideas you sketched in the other
mail). What I wanted to say is that I shall pay more attention to how
usable an API is in the different bindings. Usually, I only design the
API as such, but don't think about pitfalls of the various UNO bindings.
If I had, and if I had tried the API in Basic, the bugs in Basic's
binding would have been found earlier, and perhaps fixed before release
of the new API into the wild.

Ciao
Frank