Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of AliasFunctionReview

Timestamp:

Oct 31, 2008, 6:13:15 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

rlaager

Comment:

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AliasFunctionReview

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 This came up because we almost certainly need to add some function to return PurpleBuddy::alias only. The names we were picking clashed with the existing functions. Sadrul proposed _get_local_buddy_alias(). Richard agrees and suggests renaming that to _get_local_alias() in 3.0.0, replacing the currently unused (and newly deprecated) existing _get_local_alias().
 
-(COALESCE is borrowed from SQL to mean "return the first non-NULL item".)
+COALESCE is used here as pseudocode borrowed from SQL to mean "return the first non-NULL item".
 
 _get_alias_only = COALESCE(alias, server_alias);