<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 2, 2007, at 12:08 , Marc wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>quit\r\n</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>becomes:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>set __quit__ 0 0\r\n\r\n =></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><= STORED\r\n</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>version\r\n</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>becomes:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>get __version__\r\n =></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><= VALUE __version__<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>0 9\r\n1.2.0-rc1\r\nEND\r\n</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>I like the idea for things that are accessed (version, stats, etc...), but I don't think it makes sense for commands that exist solely for their side-effects. E.g. it doesn't help me, in authoring a generic interface, to have a mutation operation disconnect me.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>I'm trying to avoid using the term ``rest,'' but that's sort of what it feels like. You basically need a get, delete, and put operation (which has three subtly different variations), and (maybe) quit.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Flush might make sense if it uses the delete operation. For example:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>delete __everything__ 0\r\n =></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><= DELETED\r\n</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Note that the semantics are different between delete and flush in this regard, though.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>BTW, flush_regex sounds interesting, but I'd be concerned it couldn't be done cheaply.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Dustin Sallings</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>