[Verse-dev] Numerical IDs [R4]

[Eskil Steenberg]

Hi

> I was not talking about *node IDs*, I was talking about _all_
> numerical IDs. 

I know, my arguing was that, its not that the way node ids work is 
the standard way of handeling ids, Node id are the ones that are 
different form the rest, so my arguing is that if you compani about 
conssistency, the node ids are the ones that has to change.

> 	if(method_id == (uint8) ~0)

I assume this was a typo, you meant:

    if(method_id == (uint8) ~1)

But my main question is when would you ever need to do this test? 
verse would never send you a value that was -1, so the variable 
method_id wouldent ever come from verse. And the test you do does 
not garantee that the failiure of the test means that the id is 
valid. In other wordts the only reason for theis test is the slight 
optimization of an early detection of a broken reference.

So the invalid id is never used by verse, and are not very usefull 
in any client end either. if zero was reserverd it would force 
especialy host apps to have special code to handle this. I can agree 
that the cast -1 isnt that nice so perhaps we would like to add 
defines for it in verse.h

Next reason is that verse uses -1 internaly as an invalid valuee for 
a lot of things. A change would upset a lot of things in areas where 
you wouldent want them to change.

Cheers

E