Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Nick Rees) · Tue, 6 Aug 1996 23:02:45 -1000 (HST)

>   Would there be any interest in supporting an array element syntax in some
> or all of the CA clients? For example, dm might support xxx[0] as the first
> value of xxx and xxx[1] as the second. This would allow arrays to be used for
> things like (X,Y) positions.

My only comment is that I see this as something which may be better
handled at the server end, rather than the client end. William may have
meant this when he referred to `all of the CA clients'. Basically all
dm knows about variables is that it asks the world if anyone knows anything
about a particular string - putting a knowledge of string syntax into
the clients might be dangerous.

Nick

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System