Re: draft-ietf-sieve-variables-07

[Aaron Stone <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 08:37 -0800, Ned Freed wrote:
[snip]
> > So I'm suggesting that the variables spec define a base namespace
> > (I'm suggesting "Sieve.").  And I'm suggesting that the variables
> > spec define a variable that MUST be set ...

>From a language implementation point of view, if you're going to reserve
a keyword or a namespace, do it sooner rather than later.

[snip]
> I also think additional environmental information might be useful to  provide
> to script. Indeed, I suspect that knowing, say, the name of the system you're
> running on might be even more useful to scripts than being able to distinguish
> between delivery and other places sieves are used.
> 
> I would therefore suggest an extension specifying an "environment" test as a
> better approach. I suspect we can come up with half a dozen things such a test
> could operate on.

Maybe? Sieve is a "little language" and I like to think of Sieve scripts
as being these little gnomes that push my mail around. Gnomes don't
think too hard about where they are or where they're going; gnomes just
focus on what they're doing right now.

Aaron