On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:07 PM, James Paige <<a href="mailto:Bob@hamsterrepublic.com">Bob@hamsterrepublic.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
No, only if nothing exists on disk.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div>Right, I don't mean to clobber what's on disk, ever - I just meant you think you'd like it if you could set things so that you could never ask for an asset by id and get an error that it doesn't exist, cause it would always create it for you?<br>
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If I think about "default" instead of "broken" then it doesn't bother me<br>
in the slightest.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div></blockquote><div>I more mean that my intuition says that being able to have a "default" value would in practice be bad because it would mask problems of names and references being wrong, and that such problems shouldn't be hidden - in fact I've been very much on the fence about providing a "brokenreference" feature for the same reason - the only reason it is in there because the easiest way to fix a broken asset reference is to not crash, and get it in the editor.<br>
<br>Really what I'd want is something that would be an unmissable message saying exactly what the problem is, but something that lets you continue working to go fix it... but I don't know technically how to implement that.<br>
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That would be plenty to keep me happy for now :)<br>
<br></blockquote></div>Good, cause a bootstrapping thing is the only thing I think I'd want to actually be implemented right now (I'm thinking I'd want brokenreference gone, although I'm not sure...)<br>