From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:45:35 -0800 (PST)

Re: libggi3d non-clarity

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Aaron Gaudio wrote:

> And lo, the chronicles report that X. Bouchoux spake thusly unto the masses:
> > 
> > 
> > And what about some hierachical naming convention:
> > 
> > "geometry:filter:clipping:far_plane_clipper"
> > (of course you wouldn't want to do such a module, but...)
> > 
> > so that the program may still have some idea of what the module if doing, even if it doesn't know the actual thing.
> > If I don't now far_plane_clipper, I may still know waht "clipping" is.
> > 
> > a+
> > 
> 
> I think there should be a hierachical registry, so that while your module
> may be named simply "far_plane_clipper", it would be put in the registry
> in the category geometry->filters->clippers so that you know it is a 
> clipper or a filter or some geometrical processor, depending on your 
> scope of knowledge.

	Killer idea!  We could use the Berlin registrar for this!!  And
the module could be names "ZXcvBQW" if necessary - the only important info
is which interfaces the module can take input from.

Jon
 
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