[asterisk-dev] Better pattern matching

[Steve Murphy]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 19:01 +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> >>>>> "VK" == Vasil Kolev <vasil at ludost.net> writes:
> 
> VK> Or putting it shorter - there's no considerable gain from this
> VK> (even will break formatting and make it a bit harder to read), and
> VK> will create nice possibilities for abuse and problems...
> 
> There is a gain. I have debugged dial plans where the pattern was
> typed wrong on one line. Especially when copy-pasting or when changing
> patterns, it would make life much easier if you only had to correct it
> once.
> 
> Personally I'd prefer a syntax like AEL, but there is no way I'll
> touch anything which compiles to something as complicated as the
> current extensions.conf syntax. One day we can hopefully have
> something like AEL as the native format.
> 
> 
> /Benny
> 

Benny-- 

As far as AEL goes-- I don't understand the problem. What you said, in a
different context: ...there is no way I'll touch C, which compiles to
something
as complicated as the current .asm !

I don't see how AEL's output is any worse than hand-written
extensions.conf 
files. Someday, we might generate stuff with labels only, but never saw
it as a requirement to do so; We aren't expecting folks to hand-edit the
output of AEL.
Doesn't make sense. Edit the source AEL file, and regenerate the file.
It only takes a second.

Tell me what's keeping you from adopting AEL, maybe we can make it
easier for you.

murf

-- 
Steve Murphy
Software Developer
Digium
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