On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:26:08AM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> wrt the idea of extracting flag names from their DarcsFlag, I think I'm
> probably with Eric on this, in that it seems like a good idea.  I can see
> Tommy's point that in general it's a bug to change the name of any flags,
> but making things "automatically right" is just a good thing.  You could

Then I have one more objection. My point of view is the
readability of the source code. What would the name of the
option identifier be but nearly the same as the string
representation of the option? Anything else would be confusing.
So this "automatically right thing" would from my point of view
do the wrong thing, by not updating the name of the option in
the source code (instead hiding it under a level of abstraction
for no good).


-- 
Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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