Re: making user definable variables really global
Adrian Aichner <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:16:33 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.tex.texi2html.devel |
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| Organization | Teradyne, Inc. -- Consumer Business Unit |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>>>>> "Derek" == Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> writes: Derek> Adrian Aichner wrote: >>>>>>> "Derek" == Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> writes: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> >> Hi Derek! >> >> Here's what I use lately for most of my configurable perl scripts, >> demonstrated by example. >> >> I think it's wonderful to be able to migrate to an init file by >> dumping even a complex perl data structure and reading (a possibly >> modified) perl data structure for initialization. >> >> Just a thought. >> >> Adrian >> >> Derek> This is reasonable, but I don't think we need to be Derek> concerned with saving at this point. Just allowing users Derek> to write them by hand and loading the configs. Saving a known working default data structure is good way to bootstrap the configuration file, though. Derek> Derek Derek> -- Derek> *8^) Derek> Email: [email protected] Derek> Get CVS support at <http://ximbiot.com>! Derek> -- Derek> I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Derek> - Thomas Jefferson -- Adrian Aichner Teradyne GmbH, European Design Center Consumer Business Unit Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-115 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail [email protected]