Identifying Pass-by-reference params [Re: Apps Messaging -- A New Approach

[John Taylor]

On 27 Apr 2007, at 21:27, Mike Fitzpatrick wrote:

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>>> Pass-by-reference Parameters
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>>> 	Have you got a specific use case here?
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>> Not a very pressing one.  I know that we're only supposed to be
>> considering apps on a single machine, but I'm looking ahead to when
>> we might have a more general system that sends messages off the
>> desktop.  If we want to plug SAMP into that, then we'd need a way of
>> identifying parameters that referred to local resources so that a
>> "gateway/bridging" component could spot them and stage the data
>> across.
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> 	IRAF networking's done this for 20 years:  resources can be
> addressed as "node!whatever" and the system internally accesses the
> remote resource (tape drive, file, image display, etc).  The  
> 'whatever'
> could still be a URL or local file name, it could even be an appName.
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Maybe an approach similar to this would work better then.  My  
proposed solution (well, it's more of a kludge) isn't proving too  
popular, so I wouldn't waste much brain power on it just now.