[asterisk-users] Any reason to *not* use AEL? (Also, MixMonitor q)

[Atis Lezdins]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Sherwood McGowan
<sherwood.mcgowan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>> On Tuesday 03 June 2008 09:03:16 Sherwood McGowan wrote:
>>
>>> The only thing you need to watch for is falling into some basic
>>> "traps" like calling ${EXTEN} from within a switch (the AEL compiler
>>> uses sw-xxxx extensions for case instances).
>>>
>>
>> This should already be solved in the latest release.  The extension will
>> be saved in an alternate variable, and references to ${EXTEN} below
>> a switch will be converted to use that alternate variable.
>>
>>
> Actually, no they're not converted to the alternate variable. Guess I
> should contact Murf, because now that I think of it I had mentioned this
> to Murf before I think.
>

They are on 1.4.19, but this works invisible to user:

exten => _X.,76,Set(~~EXTEN~~=${EXTEN})
exten => _X.,77,Goto(sw-98-${DIALSTATUS}|10)
exten => _X.,78,NoOp(Finish switch-if-if-local_dial-95-97-98)
exten => _X.,79,Goto(103)

Regards,
Atis

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