RE: [GT] patches for GT/Systems.pm and GT/Systems/Generic.pm

["Weigert, Thomas" <weigert AT mst.edu>]

If you pass only for arguments, the remaining two are undefined.
Undefined is not the same as '' or 0, albeit often it works the same
(and the latter gives less errors). It would be good to understand what
should be assigned as key if no key is given.

On this key and func parameters, I am not sure what they are used for...
So I am nervous. In particular, if it removed warnings, that means that
somewhere key is used in a calculation....

Th.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert A. Schmied [mailto:ras
AT
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> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:25 PM
> To: devel
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> Subject: Re: [GT] patches for GT/Systems.pm and GT/Systems/Generic.pm
> 
> Weigert, Thomas wrote:
> > I don't understand the patch to Systems.pm. What reason do you have
to
> > think that '' is a good parameter for key? Nowhere else is '' being
> > passed as a parameter to $key. Please explain. Th.
> >
> 
> i have no log for that change beyond the original email -- all i can
say
> is i think (thought) it works(ed) better with a null value there than
> having no parameter in that position.
> 
> i'm thinking the change reduced or eliminated extraneous uninitialized
> or similar warnings?
> 
> there was nothing that looked like a key within the body of
> GT::Systems::Module->new, and the orginial return had only
> the initial four arguments.
> 
> i don't understand how passing four arguments to something expecting
> six works, nor does it make sense that passing 5 is any better!
> 
> 
> ras
>