>Since it seems to be the vertical platform-specific stuff where we need the >most help, it may bring us the biggest bang for the buck to have some means >of making OS calls directly in the language. We'd have to type our vars, >but that's a small price to pay for all that flexibility.
Richard, et al: If it is not a major undertaking, it would be the preferred approach. I was trying to leverage the concept by suggesting it could be a source of additional revenue to MC/RR Inc. rather than additional cost to be amortized by MC/RR sales. On the surface it seems only to require variable typing (including support for handles & pointers), ability to build & extract info from system parameter packets, and a built-in knowledge of the number and type of arguments for each system call (a la CompileIt's built-in libraries and/or buildable by the developer). Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution