| 00:00.15 | lan56 | I really dont expect it to get accepted, its nothing much, and it may need getting used to |
| 00:00.38 | learner | Why do you think that? |
| 00:01.09 | learner | reducing code redundancy is a "good thing" |
| 00:01.13 | lan56 | well, I dont know, I guess because you guys are used to spelling it out for each option |
| 00:01.23 | lan56 | but either way, its a pleasur |
| 00:01.42 | learner | feature creep |
| 00:01.44 | Patlabor221 | ohh the current code is very badly layed out, any cleanups are good |
| 00:01.49 | Patlabor221 | it's some old old code |
| 00:02.00 | learner | when there were only a half-dozen options, there was no problem |
| 00:02.10 | Patlabor221 | how many are we up to now? |
| 00:02.12 | learner | then someone adds one .. and then another.. |
| 00:02.25 | learner | before long it's 50 options and redudancy galore |
| 00:02.43 | lan56 | thats what you were telling me about the orinal patch, its good you stopped me |
| 00:03.22 | Patlabor221 | learner, your singleton header, did you make that or is it from somwhere else |
| 00:03.35 | learner | I made it |
| 00:03.36 | Patlabor221 | Gary here was saying there are other posibly better ways |
| 00:03.48 | learner | there are a variety of ways |
| 00:03.53 | Patlabor221 | from the big ol book o' singletons |
| 00:03.55 | learner | depends on needs and requiremetns |
| 00:04.15 | Patlabor221 | mostly he was saying it's easy to make another ojbect of the singleton class |
| 00:04.16 | learner | yeah, it's nothing substantial.. there are a variety of variations that basically do more or less the same thing |
| 00:04.40 | Patlabor221 | and would jsut be as easy to give everyone else an instance funk |
| 00:04.46 | learner | this one was geared towards allowing template params for the allocation method, threading model, and (something else) iirc |
| 00:05.03 | Patlabor221 | I still think it's fine :) |
| 00:05.10 | learner | say again? |
| 00:05.10 | Patlabor221 | firestarter uses it |
| 00:05.26 | learner | make another object? |
| 00:05.45 | Patlabor221 | if you don't define the contstuctiors as private you can make another ojbect |
| 00:05.54 | Patlabor221 | if you do define them as private and make it a friend |
| 00:06.18 | Patlabor221 | then it's allmost as much work in the class as just adding the code from the singleton to the class sans template |
| 00:06.18 | learner | you should not have to do the friend declaration |
| 00:06.24 | learner | but there was some compilers that bitched |
| 00:06.29 | Patlabor221 | ahhhh |
| 00:06.45 | Patlabor221 | silly compilers |
| 00:06.57 | learner | they'd see that there was no public constructor or means to call it, and would choke |
| 00:07.04 | Patlabor221 | ahh |
| 00:07.13 | Patlabor221 | I just use it cus it's a common interface |
| 00:07.18 | Patlabor221 | and easy to hook up |
| 00:07.25 | learner | yeah, that alone was my initial reason |
| 00:07.37 | learner | get rid of the static vars in a slew of classes |
| 00:07.39 | Patlabor221 | and it does that well |
| 00:07.40 | Patlabor221 | yeah |
| 00:07.56 | Patlabor221 | it let me get rid of throing gameloop pointers all over the place |
| 00:08.06 | learner | it was much more beatiful with the allocator control, and threading models |
| 00:08.27 | *** join/#bzflag Death_Barrel (~Death_Bar@cs2427127-19.houston.rr.com) |
| 00:08.28 | learner | but that was even more headache to get the compilers to chew on -- required too much compliance |
| 00:08.56 | Patlabor221 | or lack of compliance :) |
| 00:08.58 | Blue_Beard | Anybody got Tylenol? :) |
| 00:09.05 | lan56 | I do |
| 00:09.08 | learner | ~lart Blue_Beard |
| 00:09.18 | Patlabor221 | I have a shot of jim bean |
| 00:09.20 | Patlabor221 | works the same |
| 00:09.27 | Blue_Beard | That doesn't really do it for me learner. Sorry. :) |
| 00:09.27 | learner | heh, that should take care of any headache ;) |
| 00:09.37 | Patlabor221 | that will do it |
| 00:09.41 | Patlabor221 | or a hammer |
| 00:10.00 | learner | or a gun |
| 00:10.11 | learner | ~shoot Blue_Beard |
| 00:10.16 | ibot | ACTION shoots Blue_Beard in the head. |
| 00:10.21 | lan56 | took long enough |
| 00:10.22 | Patlabor221 | brutal |
| 00:10.23 | Blue_Beard | No good. |
| 00:10.41 | Patlabor221 | maybe hugh can help |
| 00:10.43 | lan56 | how bout we have a fight on irc? |
| 00:10.44 | lan56 | :) |
| 00:10.46 | Patlabor221 | ~whaleslap Blue_Beard |
| 00:10.48 | ibot | ACTION slaps Blue_Beard upside and over the head with one freakishly huge killer whale named hugh |
| 00:11.00 | Patlabor221 | you don't want to fight me or learner, we allways win |
| 00:11.03 | learner | see lan56, you're not the only one that gets picked on ;) |
| 00:11.19 | lan56 | heh, I know :) |
| 00:11.28 | Patlabor221 | how huge is freakeshly huge? |
| 00:11.29 | learner | Blue_Beard takes more abuse than most .. but he deserves it :) |