[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8 and DeadAGI

[SamyGo]

Thanks for the lesson, I appreciate that.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, SamyGo wrote:
>
>  NOOP is just for fun no benefit aside from printing something for you
>> info on CLI.
>>
>
> It's not fun, it's misleading. Especially if English is not your primary
> language.
>
> The name is not obvious. The Wikipedia entry for 'noop' says a 'no
> operation' instruction should be 'nop,' not 'noop.'
>
> Even the 'help' description is contradictory. It says 'this application
> does nothing' and then it describes what it does.
>
> There's a perfectly obvious application specifically designed for console
> output. It's named 'verbose' and it has more features.
>
> A 'best practice' would be to use the obvious application with the
> intended action instead of the obtuse application with the convenient
> side-effect.
>
> A 'noop' does have it's place as a 'place holder' for another application
> or to make a syntactically valid place for a label. If that's your intent,
> use it.
>
> Otherwise, 'raise the bar' in your dialplan coding skills and do the right
> thing. Type the extra 3 characters and make your intent clear. Isn't that
> one of the 'hallmarks' of a skilled programmer?
>
> --
> Thanks in advance,
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