Hi,
--On Friday, July 26, 2002 1:03 PM -0700 ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com
wrote:
|> A message that for whatever reason hasn't been scanned would have
|> a NULL spamtest value that does not :match or :contain anything.
|
| FWIW, I agree with this assessment. Spamtest should be cast in terms of
| the relational extension if at all possible.
I have one general question here: if the result of a test is a numeric type
('size' being the best example right now) then should relational be used or
should we have a set of numeric comparators? Obvously 'size' has a set of
comparators already, and I was basing spamtest on that. However, the
existing set of comparators (':over' ':under') did not seem sufficient for
the type of tests one would want to do with spamtest results, hence I
introduced a new set.
Personally I would prefer to stick with the numeric tests to avoid
complexity or dependence on relational. I think Jutta's argument for having
some kind of 'null' result rather than assigning a numeric value for that
does have merit - so maybe that does justify use of relational.
Dependencies bother me less than compounding mechanisms unnecessarily.
Ned