Template talk:LSL Function/uuid
Revision 649243 by Strife
Just to second Strife, while the term region is pretty clear the term sim or simulator can mean many different things (well 3). Calling a region sim is kinda deprecated. For more see this article: Simulator --Jewell Laryukov 13:26, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Exactly. That is the point I was trying to get across, which is why I reverted Gianni's introduction of the wording. It's not only vague and confusing, it's technically wrong.
- If you are referring to the parameter name, yeah, shouldn't have done it. It really should be named "region" and not "sim". I'd fix it but I don't really want to change the template and 7 articles just for something so minor. I don't even know how many other templates use sim vs region; at least 2. -- Strife (talk|contribs) 18:40, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Simulators
The term simulator (or its abbreviation sim) is too clear as the term region: it's enough to read its definition that give it 2 meanings (not 3). The term region in much cases results wrong while SL scripting language help in client's documentation used term simulator --Gianni Lupindo 14:52, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- The SL documentation, be it the old deprecated manual, or the tooltips is all to often wrong. There is work going on currently to correct the tooltips but I don't think it's hit the Trunk... it's only taken LL 5 years to take the problem seriously. Such delays are what drove the community to write their own documentation for the language. With the maturation of the LSL Portal the old manual was deprecated and the LSL Portal was declared the official LSL documentation by LL.
- You haven't provided conclusive evidence to support your claim that "simulator" is the correct term and "region" is the incorrect term. Hinting to the existence of documentation that supports your claim is insufficient. I want a log of what you tried, which could only result in the conclusion that it should be "simulator" and not "region". And since this change effects four function articles, you need to demonstrate it for those functions.
- As to the LSL Wiki article for llKey2Name, it should point out, that it's wording predates the distinction between "region" and "simulator". It's never been corrected. -- Strife (talk|contribs) 18:40, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Simulator & Region Functions
There seems to be some debate over whether these functions work at the simulator lever vs the region level. There are a bunch of functions (beyond those that use this template) that similarly fall into this niche.
This template was designed to only support 'region' functions, it would be appropriate to change it however to also support 'simulator' functions.
We need to determine which are region functions and which are simulator functions. I don't know of ANY simulator based functions.