User:Ama Omega/archive/office hour topics

Please add any topics you want to discuss at the next general scripting office hours below.

Standing Topics

• Updates on any scripting projects

Suggested Topics

• Should https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-4011 be closed as fixed? Stickman 18:11, 10 April 2011 (PDT)

Previously Discussed Topics

Discussed at 2010-11-08 DISCUSSION

• Talk:LSL Useful Function WishList#backwards-compatible ways to save typing or be more like C or Javascript (please see for discussion of merits):
  • (1) compound declarations, "integer i, j;"
  • (2) declaration initialization, "integer i=1;"
  • (3) Brackets for list index access, "l[5]=5;"
  • (4) a pragma which offers synonyms for functions without the "ll" and/or their C or Javascript short common names, if any;
  • (5) double precision floating point;
  • (6) long integers.
  • Mephistopheles Thalheimer suggests also:
  • (7) function overloads; and
  • (8) classes.

• Talk:Rotation#Useful snippets quaternion library improvements, e.g., SLERP, [1], and [2]

• Clarification of how scripting JIRA issues are resolved. Specifically minor or trivial, how/when do these get picked up to be worked on, could one or more Lindens dedicate some time each week to picking up a few smaller issues and working on them, using the JIRA list sorted by age (oldest first) to clear them by developing them, or trying to design a solution if required beforehand (Haravikk Mistral).

Discussed at 2010-10-25 DISCUSSION / TRIAGE

• LSL library calls for mesh