On Friday 17 November 2006 17:55, Steve Murphy wrote: > Defaults are only a good idea when there is a really obvious > choice that has almost no chance of being the wrong thing in > practice. Offhand, I can't think of anything that would meet > that criteria where CUT is concerned.
CUT was originally written to remove the CHANNEL unique identifier appended to the end, which is why the '-' is the default character. > What does the "Community" prefer? Should we act on shap's suggestion? > I wouldn't have brought it forward if I didn't think it had some > merit! Personally, I don't think the script to insert hyphens is > doable or practical. But the rest of his proposal...? So, in 1.6 (now > trunk), we would issue warnings about obsolescence. in 1.8, not > having that argument specified would be an error... what do y'all > think? I think the reason for removing the default is lacking. If I was writing it today, knowing all that I've used CUT for, I would have set the default to '|', as that character is unavailable with the current syntax (but will be available for syntax in 1.4), but I see absolutely no reason to change it now. Getting the wrong result should be just as much of a reason to check your syntax as getting an error message, so that's not a good reason for changing it. -- Tilghman _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
