Re: Suggestion from Newbie

2010-09-02 Thread Bren Letson
Thanks for the pointer. Newbies have to learn the language. Now I know about shortcuts and shortcircuits and short circuits. Life is good. Regards, Bren On 9/1/2010 10:37 PM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: It has been discussed. It's a non-trivial problem. If you search on shortcut (on the users

Re: Suggestion from Newbie

2010-09-02 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: It has been discussed. It's a non-trivial problem. If you search on shortcut (on the users list, too) you'll be able to find a lot of the history. I think if you search for shortcircuit or short circuit you may turn up more info, too. Blargh.

Re: Suggestion from Newbie

2010-09-01 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
It has been discussed. It's a non-trivial problem. If you search on shortcut (on the users list, too) you'll be able to find a lot of the history. I think if you search for shortcircuit or short circuit you may turn up more info, too. BTW, there's a plugin to do this, too, if I'm not

Suggestion from Newbie

2010-08-27 Thread Bren Letson
I scanned subject lines in the list archives back six months and didn't see anything that indicated this idea has been proposed before. However, it seems unlikely that I'm the first to have these thoughts: 1. When looping through rules, stop the loop on the last rule or, optionally,

Re: Suggestion from Newbie

2010-08-27 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Bren Letson wrote: I scanned subject lines in the list archives back six months and didn't see anything that indicated this idea has been proposed before. However, it seems unlikely that I'm the first to have these thoughts: You're not. The term we use is shortcut 1.