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Re: meta info in EU: was what standards...

• Posted by JJProg at CYBERBURY.NET Dec 20, 1998
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EU>Thanks for your reply, Jeffrey.  I now know what you're saying.

EU>What you are saying is an "extention" of EU, kind of like meta tags in
EU>HTML.  Again, I was just confused, and re-itterate that the standards are
EU>the specs (language definition) which RDS sets, with our input, of course!

EU>I think that there must be at least a prototype of an update software.
EU>Right now there's no EU prog that can really do Internet/web operations, as
EU>I understand it.  What I suggest is that library routine authors can maybe
EU>define a global constant and then users of that routine can do a
EU>type-check, aborting if necessary.  Good idea.

EU>There is no such thing like this in other languages, including HTML, that
EU>"mandates" recording of author/date info.  Everything in HTML <meta> is
EU>non-standard, there is no standard, by W3C's admission, in HTML 4.0, of
EU>what goes into a meta tag.  So I think this may be voluntary?

EU>Alan

Yes, it would be voluntary. It would just allow compliant Euphoria
programs to take advantage of the "standards" so that most things would
be compatable.

Another example of the possibilities of "standards" would be
documentation. Right now, there is standard documentation (library.doc
etc.), and then there are various documentation formats in diferent
files for pretty much every Euphoria program. Wouldn't it be nice to,
say, be able to easily view the documentation for any file in some
standard format. There could be a standard documentation format that
some future Euphoria editor could take advantage of so you could, for
example, add to ed.ex so that when you ask for help, it could not just
provide library.doc and the other standard help files, but also the
documentation for any library you spesify.

Jeffrey Fielding
JJProg at cyberbury.net
http://members.tripod.com/~JJProg/