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Re: First ever IRC meeting has finished

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yah??.com> Apr 28, 2008
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Matt Lewis wrote: 
> I'm having a hard time getting worked up about this.  This is only an issue
> for setting associations on Windows.  If you're a developer, I can't manage
> any sympathy if this is too high a hurdle.  If you're distributing code, then
> you shouldn't be relying on file associations.  Either distribute bound or
> translated code, or provide a .bat file.
> Matt

Which is the point that I was trying to make, put more succinctly thank you.

If you are distributing platform-dependent code, then put in a call to
platform() somewhere.

Related, it might be nice to add a version() built-in, or piggy-back it with
platform(), eventually.

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.