16 Mar
2007
16 Mar
'07
1:25 p.m.
Sven Panne wrote:
Another option would be to export all constants on all platforms. If a constant is not supported by the underlying platform, use a value which is guaranteed to result in e.g. a usual I/O error when used with a network function.
That's a possibility, but I think that the best place to start from is
the portable constants from RFC 2553, which every platform supports.
That way, the functionality becomes available reasonably soon in a
useful form. Trying to figure out how to deal acceptably with constants
that are not portable looks like a rathole, one I'd rather descend into
later :-)