Re: Language neutrality

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:23:04 +0100

Alasdair Allan wrote:
> An issue about language neutrality. You have the method names of
> the form;
>
> samp.hub.isAlive( )
>
> in the XML-RPC mapping of the Standard Profile. This is of course
> very Java-centric.
>
> For instance. the period is not a valid identifier in Perl where
> you can't have a method name with a full stop in it. This means
> that auto-dispatch from a Perl XML-RPC server is very hard (if not
> impossible) to implement.

There was a reason why PLASTIC called perform( ) rather than plastic.perform( ) and I think this was it...

Al. Received on 2008-05-01Z18:22:59