Why isn't Rev more popular?

[Peter T. Evensen]

I was under the impression that rev* were functions that RunRev added to 
revolution before they acquired (the rights to) the engine.  Since they 
couldn't modify the engine at that point, these functions were added as 
externals with the rev* prefix.

At 01:16 PM 12/2/2005, you wrote:

>Thanks. That does help sort things out. And I think this is a useful
>discussion, and one that comes up every so often. The revdb_xxx
>functions are equally ugly. My impression is that the "rev" prefix is
>a way to handle namespaces in an xtalk way; i.e., without instituting
>a dot mechanism: rev.xml.addNode paramList, which does indeed veer way
>too much into javaLand.
>

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