On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Alan Horkan wrote: > > LRU? > acrnoyms confuse the crap out of me and it would have thought you meant > Least Recently Used execpt that does not make sense in this context.
Sure does, and that is correct. Though it's kind of an inverted sense: We pick entries to throw away by least recently used. > I am used to seeing MRU for "most recently used", and i just thought i > would point this out and hope that there is a comment in the code to make > it clear to others who are easily confused. We shall surely comment. > What is am trying to say is that faced by an unknown acronym i think > people will geuss the right answer for MRU more often than the will LRU. LRU is a well known cache replacement scheme, and this menu is in essence a cache. A cache of no fixed limit, though. > I try not to be pedantic and i know it is a trivial detail, i am not > nitpicking but i was seriously confused by this whole thread because of > it and i hope you will consider what would give the most clear and most > maintainable code. (Being in touch with my inner idiot is what helps me > to test software and evaluate usuability.) Yay inner idiot! :) -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
