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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: drops module (draft)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:57:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <512D2CFA-FF48-44F2-A5C4-78A07ED31083@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C1DA93.9040303@gmx.net>


Am 07.12.2012 um 13:01 schrieb Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>:

>> I would also create a new namespace for the \setupdrops command because
>> currently it uses the “module” namespace.
>> 
>> \def\dosetupdrops[#1]%
>>  {\iffirstargument\getparameters[\??module drops:][#1,{\c!setup=}]\else % never parameter 'setup'
>>   \ctxlua{thirddata.drops.resetdrops()}\fi} % reset all parameters to their default, when no argument is given
> 
> Ok. Can you explain why that is a problem?

It’s bad style to misuse internal namespaces and and you can’t be sure the namespaces changes
which lead to problems with the simple slides module which used the \setavariables namespace
for a while.

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-07 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-06 17:08 Peter Rolf
2012-12-06 18:05 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-12-06 18:18   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-12-07 12:01     ` Peter Rolf
2012-12-07 12:57       ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2012-12-06 18:35   ` Marco
2012-12-06 19:46     ` Hans Hagen
2012-12-07 12:04     ` Peter Rolf
2012-12-07 12:49       ` Marco Patzer
2012-12-07 13:27         ` Peter Rolf
2012-12-06 19:05   ` Hans Hagen
2012-12-06 19:44   ` Hans Hagen
2012-12-07 11:59   ` Peter Rolf
2012-12-07 18:02 ` Otared Kavian
2012-12-07 20:53   ` Hans Hagen
2012-12-08 13:03   ` Peter Rolf

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