[BRLTTY] Low-level BrlAPI questions

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2021/05/08 at 22:07 +0200]

>I however eventually digged back into the git log, and this isArray
>was really introduced to determine, as documented, whether there is
>to be possibly several values, or always one. That's notably used in
>the Python bindings to know whether it shall return, when one value
>is returned, an array of one value or directly the value. That's
>contradictory with what you wrote above. 

Well ... retrospection isn't a bad thing. It's kind of like when a politician changes his/her mind on some important issue. Some think it shows weakness of character and others think it shows thoughtfulness and a willingness to acknowledge a past wrong. :-)

In this case, yes, I do think my former opinion was wrong. I now think that the count should mean the size of a single entry, and that the isArray flag should mean either exactly one entry (false) or zero or more entries (true). This, of couse, would be not backward-compatible, and would mean bindings changes.

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