Fatal mistake... I think I killed my GP2D02 ! I powered it with 7.5V instead
of 5V, for quite a long time. Nothing comes from it (always read 255), I
don't know if it's coming from my mistake, or my lib :)

Seb

2009/3/14 Joep Suijs <[email protected]>

>
> 2009/3/14 Sebastien Lelong <[email protected]>:
> > Hi Joep,
> >
> >> The way to do this in C is to
> >> create a structure with all relevant info in it. But since we don't
> >> have stuctures eiher, we need to add each relevant var as a calling
> >> parameter.
> >
> > We don't have struct, but we have array. With getters and setters, you
> can
> > consider having something behaving like a struct,
> This takes extra code, but so does passing parameters. I'd say passing
> parameters should be more efficient but I am not sure. Would be nice
> to know though ;)
>
> And more general: we are working on embedded systems, so resources are
> scarce. I did not analyse it yet, but my idea is that both jallib and
> jalv2 give bigger code then the old compiler + libs. Both the compiler
> and jallib also add much value to the old situation, but limited
> resource use is a quality aspect we should not forget...
>
> >> In short: if you only have two bits that relate to the object, make
> >> them calling parameters.
> >
> > This is the case here: only two bit parameters (2 pins). But this would
> give
> > a weird API. What I want when using this lib is "gimme the distance read
> by
> > ranger n°2", and not "using these pins (which appears to identify ranger
> > n°2), gimme the distance". As a user, I don't even want to know there are
> > two involved pins, and this can be error prone. I just want to get the
> > distance, using some kind of abstraction (ranger n°X).
>
> Of course we want to help our users as much as we can. But in this
> case the user has to know about the ranger pins anyway. So it is not a
> matter of shielding this from the user, where it's defined - at
> setup-time or when you use them.
>
> What could we do?
>
> or --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ; setup sharp 1
> setup_sharp(1, pin_a0, pin_a1)
>
> forever loop
>   x= read_sharp(1)
> end loop
>
> or --------------------------------------------------------------------
> forever loop
>   x= read_sharp(pin_a0, pin_a1)    ; read sharp 1
> end loop
>
>
> or --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> function read_sharp1() return byrte is
>   pragma inline
>   return read_sharp(pin_a0, pin_a1)    ; read sharp 1
> end function
>
> forever loop
>   x= read_sharp1()
> end loop
>
> or --------------------------------------------------------------------
> var volatile bit sharp1_in = pin_a0
> var volatile bit sharp1_out = pin_a1
>
> forever loop
>   x= read_sharp(sharp1_in, sharp1_out)
> end loop
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Take your pick.
> And you probably understand by now that I see no added value in the
> first option that justifies higher resource use.
>
> Joep
>
> >
>


-- 
Sébastien Lelong
http://www.sirloon.net
http://sirbot.org

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"jallib" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to