[Users] Re: [Devel] avpops updates

[Dan Pascu]

On Saturday 11 February 2006 15:27, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> I would like to have a clear notation for avp aliases as well and your
> solution seems good. I was considering the notation from existing
> pseudo-variables. Maybe it would be better to force "i:number" and
> "s:string" also for values, to avoid other confusions.

I think that enforcing i: and s: for values is not necessary. You know 
from the context that you handle a value so there isn't any confusion as 
with pseudo variables versus aliases. And to have all strings (which are 
used most) prefixed with s: may soon become annoying. I think that a 
value without any prefix should be considered a string value by default 
as it is now.

If we have these notations I think any confusion will be eliminated:

Pseudo variables (start with $):
$something        - pseudo variable

AVPs (in the form $avp(xxx)):
$avp(i:something) - integer avp
$avp(s:something) - string avp
$avp(something)   - avp alias if defined else string avp

Values (in the form "xxx"):
"i:something"     - integer value
"s:something"     - string value
"something"       - string value

They seem pretty consistent and confusion-free to me in this form.

>
> Is there any other opinion for this issue?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel

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Dan