global_params: conflicting parameter names about param

[sf-issues]

Submitted by ceball
Date: 2011-10-08 10:02 GMT

| It's a minor problem!
|
|
| From the tracker item:
|
| "
| [goshawk]v1cball: ./topographica -c name=4 -i
| Time: 000000.00 global_params: Warning: 'name=4' is unused.
|
| (name is a parameter of param.Parameterized)
| "
|
| Note that was with "-c", not "-p". There shouldn't be a warning (or at
| least, not this warning). Compare with "bob":
|
| ceball@fiver:/topographica-git$ ./topographica -c bob=4
| ceball@fiver:/topographica-git$ ./topographica -p bob=4
| Time: 000000.00 global_params: Warning: 'bob' is unused.
|
| There's only a warning because global_params is a Parameterized
| instance and therefore has a name parameter.

Ah, subtle. I didn't notice the -c. Is this a general problem? Does
a Parameterized just have the one parameter, name? If so, maybe there
could be a special case, not warning if name is unused, and then we'd
never have to worry about anything else.

[ceball]

See ioam/topographica#554