[Users] Re: [Devel] avpops updates

[Dan Pascu]

I haven't mentioned this directly and to avoid any misunderstanding, my 
suggestion means that $ will no longer be used to identify an avp alias.

On Saturday 11 February 2006 00:09, Dan Pascu wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 21:44, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> What I have in mind is to use $something for pseudo variables like
> before but unify the avp and avp alias notation, since an avp alias is
> just another name for an existing avp. Thus we can have these:
>
> $avp(i:nnn)        - integer avp
> $avp(s:some_name)  - string avp with name 'some_name'
> $avp(some_name)    - if some_name is defined as an avp alias, use the
> avp pointed by that alias, else lookup the string avp with the name
> 'some_name'
>
> In short, anything not having a i: or s: in front of it should be first
> looked up as an avp alias, but if that alias is not defined it should
> be considered as the name of the string avp.

-- 
Dan