Re: Irssi redesign / rewrite

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:44:29PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> if I used only a couple of C++ features but mostly C-style coding, it'd just
> annoy all the C++ programmers ;)

  Even C++ objects only are good reason to use C++ :) Well, sure it is up to you,
  it was just a though :)

> >   Would be nice to have embedded charset conversions too...
> 
> Embedded? I'm not sure what you mean.

  Well... I mean some support for conversions in core, so everybody can specify
  which charset his terminal uses and which charset in IRC channel is, without
  need of some special scripts.

> Have to look at that. I'm not really sure what the scripting should actually
> look like. At least it'd have to be easy to use within themes and statusbar
> items, something like nick = "$indent(<$0$1>, 10)"
> 

  IMHO, scripting language should be more or less understandeable. It should
  be simple (for beginners), of course, but not too simple - on the other
  hand.

Regards,
/Al