[DGD] Question for programmers and builders

[Felix A. Croes]

Noah Gibbs <noah_gibbs at yahoo.com> wrote:

>[...]
>   So...  Here's the question...
>
>   Phantasmal gets a lot of flak for being gratuitously weird, by which I mean
> "not like 2.4.5".  And that's true, it really isn't.  Would people have an
> easier time with passing Phrases around if they looked like the markup strings
> above instead of looking like opaque LWO structures that you have to call
> functions on?

Data representation and the interface presented to the programmer are
two different issues.  You can have it both ways -- let phrases be
light-weight objects internally, and let programmers work with
strings such as "~green{foo}" if they want to.

Regards,
Dworkin