00:27 <bitbasher> kintel: thanks for your patience - i now have your reply .. just after Guests big post my client disconnected and i did not fully understand how the log worked .. but now that i know the liberia site i can find things i miss in future

00:27 <bitbasher> night now

17:52 <bitbasher> hi folks .. i could use some clarity on parameter lists for built-in modules

17:54 <bitbasher> looking at linear_extrude in the scad editor i see two groups of parameters .. and looking at the code that parses parameters i see it has two lists .. the parse() function gets the argument object, and the two lists are called required and optional .. but they are not really

17:56 <bitbasher> all of the l_ex params are optional .. a comment from kintel suggested they might be used as lists of the positional and named parameters .. but that might not be true

17:58 <bitbasher> in the editor the completion list offers height, center, convexity, twist as the first 4 positional params .. but the code shows that the v vector is actually second .. confirmed by trying to put v=[0,0,1] anywhere but position 2 and getting a warning that it is over-writing a positional param

17:58 <bitbasher> all very confusing ..

17:59 <bitbasher> i think there is a bug report here .. anyone able to guide me on this?

18:25 <teepee> linear_extrude is problematic as it has a deprecated file parameter

23:15 <kintel> Didn't we get rid of the file parameter recently? Perhaps we didn't fully clean that up?

23:32 <bitbasher> there ain't no file param on linear_extrusion in the dev snapshot i have

23:33 <bitbasher> now .. the import() built-in does have both a filename and a file param