[Rock-dev] orocos.rb: connect_to, disconnet_from extension

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On 02/13/2012 02:57 PM, Alexander Duda wrote:
> At the moment I am trying to integrate the port_proxy into the vizkit.rb
> and orocos.rb. It would be a lot easier and clearer if we could add to
> the connect_to and disconnect_from method the following line.
>
> port.rb + 400
> input_port = input_port.to_orocos_port if
> input_port.respond_to?(:to_orocos_port)

Would be fine, but don't make it optional, i.e. always do

   port = port.to_orocos_port

and make sure that Orocos::Port has a #to_orocos_port method that 
returns self. This is the normal protocol in "duck-typed" languages like 
Ruby.
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