[mapserver-dev] call for vote on rfc 48

thomas bonfort thomas.bonfort at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 15:09:25 EST 2008


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 21:03, Daniel Morissette
<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> 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.

hmm, yes I see I missed some out. will correct.

>
>
>> 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.

Steve was against that:
"
- syntax should use [geom] instead of plain geom in keeping with
expression syntax
"

I have no preference over one or the other.


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