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Agreed. Extensions should be sorted in a natural "best fit" order instead of alphabetical and (what the hell???) contexts include order.<BR>
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On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 10:52 -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">i noticed that the ordering of extensions in the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">internal lists is determined by a strcmp(), which means</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">that if a string is a prefix of another,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the prefix comes first.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Is there a reason for this ? because it seems contrary</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to what is at least common practice in IP routing</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(longest prefix match first), and it would seem</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">convenient to me that in a dialplan you have exceptions first</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and a general rule afterwards...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(why i am asking here and not on -users ? because</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">on -users i would ask for a workaround, whereas here</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">i am asking the motivation of this design choice...)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">cheers</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">luigi</FONT>
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