[Asterisk-Users] Re: [Asterisk] Major new * Dialplan Features

[Florian Overkamp]

At 10:54 18-2-2003 -0600, you wrote:
> > What I dont like is the fact suddenly the context is prepended
> > with macro-. In all other cases * takes the context as we
> > have given it, not zap-remote is we have context=remote
> > in zaptel.conf etc etc. Why this sudden changeofhart?
> > Nothing really is gained by it and it throws off the
> > esthalished set of ground rules :)
>
>I guess the logic was to make it clearer that these contexts are truly
>macros, for visibility.  Clearly, in the general case, a context for a
>macro will not be useful as a general purpose context due to ${ARG1} et
>al.  I'm open to feedback on this though.  Anybody else have feelings one
>way or another?


I must say I'm sympathetic to Paulines views on this matter. Maybe it is 
even more usefull to create a different syntax to indicate a macro which 
does not have a high risk of confusion with contexts. Maybe:

@stdexten
exten => s,1,Dial(${ARG2},20)
exten => s,2,Voicemail(u${ARG1})
exten => s,102,Voicemail(b${ARG2})

[default]
exten => 6275,Macro(stdexten,6275,Zap/1)
exten => 6236,Macro(stdexten,6236,Zap/2)

Or something similar.

Best regards,
Florian