Language neutrality

[Alasdair Allan]

Alasdair Allan wrote:
> An issue about language neutrality. You have the method names of  
> the form;
>
>   samp.hub.isAlive( )
>
> in the XML-RPC mapping of the Standard Profile. This is of course  
> very Java-centric.
>
> For instance. the period is not a valid identifier in Perl where  
> you can't have a method name with a full stop in it. This means  
> that auto-dispatch from a Perl XML-RPC server is very hard (if not  
> impossible) to implement.

There was a reason why PLASTIC called perform( ) rather than  
plastic.perform( ) and I think this was it...

Al.