Parameter block initialisation

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 30 Oct 2001, in message <3BDE8E68.21959.283474 at localhost>,
"Jonathan Coxhead" <jonathan at doves.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On 30 Oct 2001, at 12:48, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> 
> > It has been suggested that it would be nice if OSLib could automatically
> > perform the partial initialisation of parameter blocks where this is
> > required, e.g. |oswordreadclock_utc(&utc)| requires that |utc.op| is
> > initialised with |oswordreadclock_OP_UTC|.
> > 
> > Obviously this requires an enhancement to DefMod; and given that there
> > are very few calls which initialise a parameter block in this way, it may
> > simply not be worth the effort. OTOH, if it could be done simply, it
> > would be a nice enhancement.
> > 
> > Has anyone got any suggestions?
> 
>    Sure---don't do it!
> 
Good - suits me :-)

>    I agree it could have been better documented, but I think that was 
> taken  care of, wasn't it?
> 
Um, no, but it will be...

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