[mapserver-dev] call for vote on rfc 48
Daniel Morissette
dmorissette at mapgears.com
Thu Dec 4 15:03:20 EST 2008
thomas bonfort wrote:
>
> the square brackets are required, as they denote an argument that
> depends on the data query. The aim would be to stay consistent if some
> day we have something like buffer([geom],[distance]).
Well, then the examples in the RFC need to be fixed since they don't
have square brackets.
> I agree that the
> notation is a bit awkward as "geom" has no linkage with the actual
> data request.
You had suggested in the previous RFC-48 thread that the square brackets
could collide with the attribute binding syntax and proposed taking them
away... and I agreed with that.
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Daniel Morissette
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