gzz: Blank cells in dimlist (wuz Re: [zzdev] :virt,tx,gzz: What to do in undefined conditions :)

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure I understand-- u sez

>Ok, fixed the empty dimcell addition to only crash that 
>particular view for now. That's important to do first so that
>if we later find different bugs in the view code, they won't completely
>crash but only that view again.
>
>THEN, if we want, we can special case it to e.g. just show nothing on
>that dimension.

Couldn't you check input on that dimension to prevent
 the blank instead?

ChrzT


At 07:04 AM 7/11/00 +0300, you wrote:
>
>
>On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Ted Nelson wrote:
>
>> Tuomas,
>> 
>> You point out excellently the problem of
>> > - undefined operations. What should the system do when rotating
>> >   to an empty cell as a dimension, for example
>> 
>> Let me throw out some general rules to consider--
>> 
>> 1.  Don't crash.
>
>Ok, fixed the empty dimcell addition to only crash that 
>particular view for now. That's important to do first so that
>if we later find different bugs in the view code, they won't completely
>crash but only that view again.
>
>THEN, if we want, we can special case it to e.g. just show nothing on
>that dimension.
>
>	Tuomas
>
>
>
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