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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: class KStartParams
From:       Stefan van den Oord <s.m.vandenoord () student ! utwente ! nl>
Date:       1999-06-07 14:53:10
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On Mon, 07 Jun 1999, Michael Koch wrote:
> > > I want to make KoApplication in KOffice-libs using KStartParams.
> > 
> > I would call it KOfficeApplication, but I guess that's a matter of
> > taste.
> 
> It's named KoApplication a long time ago. Why change the name. It's an naming
> convention in KOffice-libs: all class-names start with "Ko".

Oh, that's ok, I thought you meant you were going to write it.

[snip]
> IMHO getopt is not very flexible. With KStartParams it will be easier to check
> if a paramter is present or not. You can delete a parameter, check if a short
> or a long version of a paramter is present, a.o.
> 
> With getopt() you have to deal with char*. KStartParams uses QString. You don't
> need do handle complicated C-functions. IMHO it's easier to code C++ then C.

Well, those are a couple of very good reasons. And I fully agree that
C++ is easier than C. (Once you understand the object-oriented
paradigm; if you learned programming the "old-fashioned way", it
appears that it is not too easy to understand object orientation. Ask
the students I help with their programming courses :-)

Stefan

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Stefan van den Oord
s.m.vandenoord@student.utwente.nl

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