[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:8545] Re: d.vect.thematic options with spaces

[Michael Barton]

Moritz,

This makes sense. When I originally wrote the script, I was thinking of
making the options understandable, and didn't really anticipate how much
more complex and useful it would become. When I was porting it to a GIS
Manager panel, I toyed with the idea of changing the options to single words
but didn't at that point because it seems to have become very widely used
and I didn't want to cause existing users a lot of grief.

I think it would be better to rename some of these options, but I'm not sure
of the smoothest way to transition everyone to new single word names. Do any
of you have experience with this?

Michael
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> From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:43:06 +0200
> To: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Cc: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>, grass5 developers list
> <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:8545] Re: d.m - commands output pollute
> the Grass terminal
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> Glynn Clements wrote:
>> Moritz Lennert wrote:
>>> As a side remark, this might be an argument for avoiding arguments
>>> with spaces whenever possible. For example, in d.vect.thematique, it
>>> might be better to find other names for arguments such as 'graduated
>>> colors', 'custom gradient', 'standard deviation', etc.
>> 
>> 
>> No need. Tcl has perfectly good support for lists; there's no reason
>> to treat a command as a string.
>> 
> 
> Well, my remark was meant for the command line, where you have to
> know that you have to put some of the options between quotes because
> there are spaces between them. I just think it would make life
> easier for everyone if we avoid option names with spaces in them...
> 
> Moritz
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