[Asterisk-Dev] Function format

[Olle E. Johansson]

Leif Madsen - Certified Asterisk Consultant wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote:
> 
>>As soon as you nest that deep (3 or more levels), it's going to look
>>ugly, no matter what the syntax.  It's not that big a deal; move on.
> 
> 
> I disagree. By having curly braces you end up up doubling the number
> of closing braces required. While I'm not a parsing expert in
> Asterisk, I believe something like the following would be easier to
> read:
> 
> Original:
> 
> exten => 100,n,Goto(${IF(${EXISTS(${DB(foo/bar)})})}?:novalue)
> 
> Proposed(?):
> 
> exten => 100,n.Goto(%IF(%EXISTS(%DB(foo/bar)))?:novalue)
> 
> You end up with half the number of closing braces, and is much easier
> visually on the eyes.
> 
Agree. The % construct makes more sense and is easier to distinguish
from the variables. It will be much easier to teach a newbie.

/O