DefMod Syntax

[Tom Hughes]

In message <200003081944.LAA06788 at purple.trimedia.sv.sc.philips.com>
          "Jonathan Coxhead" <jonathan at doves.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>    Are you committed to "FullMessage" everywhere? I think that the
> full message will be more commonly used, so it deserves a shorter
> form of the name. My proposal was to give the full message the same
> name as the message body, but with "Message" deleted. (Ideally, the
> full message would have had the name with "Message", and the message
> body would have had the name with "MessageBody", but it's too late
> for that now.) I don't know if this would lead to any name clashes
> with other types.

I think I probably prefer your scheme as well.

>    A different way to do it is to declare 2 different message types
>
>       TYPE
>          InetSuite_OpenURLDirect =
>             .Struct: Wimp_MessageHeader
>             (
>                [236] .Char: url
>             ),
>
>          InetSuite_OpenURLIndirect =
>             .Struct: Wimp_MessageHeader
>             (
>                .Int: tag,
>                ...
>             )

I think I probably prefer this solution.

> and then make a union from them separately
>
>       TYPE
>          InetSuite_OpenURL =
>             .Union
>             (
>                InetSuite_OpenURLDirect:   direct,
>                InetSuite_OpenURLIndirect: indirect
>             )

I'm not sure this is even necessary is it? other that possibly
for completeness...

Tom

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