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Re: New Docs, new layout

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowga??com> May 02, 2008
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Shawn Pringle wrote:
> 
> Hey Jeremy,
> 
> Two things:  Firstly, I found two functions in the category 'C-Interface';
> free_console(), and msg_box().  These two functions have nothing to do with
> the C-interface itself.  I suppose they are there until you can think of a
> better category?  How about 'User Interface'?  

Yeah, I didn't like that either when I put them there, however, I did not
categorize them as C-interface. In the current docs they are listed under
C-interface, so I just stuck with it.

http://rapideuphoria.com/library.htm#call_c_func

>Secondly, there are so many
> types that seem to be only implemented as functions.  Why not implement them
> as types to extend their functionality?  These types include isxdigit(), 
> for example.

I was thinking of that, but do we want types for all those C is??? functions?
i.e. the types would be: alnum, alpha, ascii, cntrl, digit, graph, lower, print,
punct, space, upper, xdigit ... some of thse in there we cannot use (lower,
print, upper) and others would be confusing as a type (space, graph).

I was unsure of exactly how to handle them. So, I found others using the names
of the standard C functions found in ctypes.h, isascii, isdigit, etc...

However, I think the section you found those in is called Type Checking, not
really Types?

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Jeremy Cowgar
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