Re: what is a baton?

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:20:28PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> Yes, Jim Blandy made up the term in the early days of subversion. He
> invented it when he came up with the Editor interface. The idea was
> that each editor call would "pass a baton" to the next one.
> (open_dir() creates a dir_baton, which is passed into open_file(),
> etc, which creates a file_baton, which is passed into apply_txdelta(),
> and so on.)
>
> Afterwards, we just started using the term 'baton' to refer to any use
> of opaque userdata. :-)

I think that this definition must be included in documentation.
Peraps into developpers documentation (the HACKING file ?)

Ciao

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Daniele
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