[Laszlo-dev] bug in event init process

[P T Withington]

That sounds like a good idea to me.  It certainly would unobfuscate  
things a bit.

Shall I assign http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-1326 to you?

On 2006-06-23, at 17:31 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:

> Should we add a new arg that's passed in to the runtime? That is,  
> we now
> pass in
> a list of attributes, $events (handlers), and $refs (constraints).  
> Should we
> also pass in something
> which is the list of declared events, which should get initialized  
> to the
> sentinel event?
>
> Maybe we should rename $refs to $constraints, and $events to
> $eventhandlers,and add $events as the new
> arg?
>
>
>
> On 6/23/06, Henry Minsky <henry.minsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah I think now would be better than later.
>> A declared event needs to get initialized to something, and it has to
>> happen pretty early.
>> We're using the sentinel object now, there was some talk of making  
>> it so
>> the compiler expanded
>>  sendEvent to do  a check for null instead? I guess we can overlap  
>> these
>> implementations, and if the
>> compiler check is implemented then we could then just bind the  
>> sentinel
>> object to null..
>>
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>> > > Sounds like it should definitely be initialized to the sentinel
>> > > array...
>> >
>> > As the TODO says, this is a fragile area of the tag compiler  
>> stemming
>> > from treating an event declaration as an attribute declaration.  It
>> > might work to use the sentinel event instead of null, but  
>> perhaps we
>> > want to consider if now is the time to split events from  
>> attributes?
>> >
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