Re: [RFA] Remote symbol look-up (resubmission)

Andrew Cagney
2001-06-06T09:07:00Z

> Andrew, if I have to change the QSymbol:value:name message from a
> Q to a q, it is going to cause me non-trivial grief and code rewriting.
> Are you going to insist on this? To me it seems like a "set" message,
> not a "query" message. It is telling the target that symbol <name>
> has value <value>, not asking the target something.
>
> I need the first message that opens the dialogue to be unambiguously
> unique, so that I know that I have to request the _first_ unknown
> symbol, rather than the _next_ unknown symbol. I don't want the
> message that says "start requesting symbols" to be the same as the
> message that says "here's your next symbol, and by the way you may
> request another".

Sorry, I'm lost here. I expected the logic handling ``start requesting
symbols'' and ``request next symbol'' to be using common logic. Vis
something like:

if (qSymbol)
if ( == "" && <symbol> != "")
return "OK"; // oops symbol not found
if ( != "" && <symbol> != "")
table[<symbol>] = ;
return <name-of-next-unknown-symbol>

Andrew