Thanks for the lesson, I appreciate that.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Steve Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asterisk.org@sedwards.com">asterisk.org@sedwards.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, SamyGo wrote:<br>
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NOOP is just for fun no benefit aside from printing something for you info on CLI.<br>
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It's not fun, it's misleading. Especially if English is not your primary language.<br>
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The name is not obvious. The Wikipedia entry for 'noop' says a 'no operation' instruction should be 'nop,' not 'noop.'<br>
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Even the 'help' description is contradictory. It says 'this application does nothing' and then it describes what it does.<br>
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There's a perfectly obvious application specifically designed for console output. It's named 'verbose' and it has more features.<br>
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A 'best practice' would be to use the obvious application with the intended action instead of the obtuse application with the convenient side-effect.<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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