Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Automatic omit: Difference between revisions

Often several different tasks are about the same general feature (e.g. concurrency, GUI, network access, file system operations, etc.). Now if a language doesn't support any of those, then it will of course support none of the specific tasks for that feature (e.g. a language that doesn't support concurrency will not support any task that involves threads, mutexes or semaphores). Currently you need to have an explicit <nowiki>{{omit from|Language}}</nowiki> for each of the tasks. I think it would be a good idea if there were a defined set of general features, where the task could state whether the features are needed, and the language page may state which features are not supported, and then to automatically omit all languages from a task if they don't support the features (except if there's an explicit example for the language in that task; maybe there's a workaround for the specific tasks in the language).

 

 

:: OK, I'm now applying properties named "provides::" (the language or standard library directly provides it) and "allows::" (the language doesn't directly provide it, but there are libraries or other methods to do it) to languages, and "requires::" to tasks. The values of these properties all start with <tt>Capability:</tt>. --[[User:Ce|Ce]] 20:15, 12 August 2010 (UTC)