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Re: [Xotcl] xotcl::nonposArgs

From: Gustaf Neumann <neumann_at_wu.ac.at>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:00:13 -0500

OpenACS contains for XOTcl 1 compatible slot interface for the basic
slot features.
The advanced slot features were marked in XOTcl 1 as "experimental",
some of these
will require some work in XOTcl 2. The NX slot-system is much more advanced
and regular than the XOTcl-1 predecessor, therefore we made this short
cut, knowing,
that some power-users will need some fiddling. if there are problems,
we try to help as usual.

greetings from mx
-gn

Am 16.07.15 um 04:47 schrieb Stefan Sobernig:
>> PS: For novices the "mixture" of ::nx and ::xotcl is a bit
>> unexpected, for
>> example when serializing ::xotcl::MetaSlot on my OpenACS instance,
>> one can
>> see, that e.g. the superclass of ::xotcl::MetaSlot is ::nx::MetaSlot et
>> cetera. My intuitive expectation was that both XOTcl 2 and NX exist as
>> different languages within NSF, but more or less completely isolated
>> from
>> each other.
>
> XOTcl building on NX (esp. slots) is hinted at some spots in the
> migration guide at
> https://next-scripting.org/xowiki/docs/nx/nx-migration/index1#_parameters_2.
>
>> I suppose the reason is to keep the source code required to
>> support the "legacy" XOTcl syntax as small as possible?
>
> So it is.
>
> Stefan
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