SAMP MType parameters issue

[Thomas Boch]

Hi Mike,

> Forgive my Python ignorance, but could somebody post a snippet of
> sample code demonstrating the problem?  The mtype is a string in a
> bit of XML, how/why is this conflicting with the syntax for a variable
> name?

The mtype arguments are strings in a XML document, and the current
syntax does not prevent to use SAMP from Python.
But Luigi would like to directly map the values of those arguments into
a Python structure (and vice versa), in order to do things like :
cli.notify("table.load.votable", url="file:///path/of/a/votable",
table-id="1234abcd")

This does not work as the hyphen character in table-id is not allowed in
Python variables names.

> If adopted, the BNF has to be a requirement in order to counter the
> freedom we give to create  user-defined mtypes (where guys like
> me would naturally use an hyphen if needed).  Another alternative is
> to simply use camelCase mtypes.

CamelCase syntax is allowed with the BNF Luigi was suggesting.

Cheers,

Thomas