On 10/6/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:54:13AM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > >yes, but it makes me think that this is something that can be shared > > >across multiple machines. global makes me think of system-wide (consider > > >the term "world-readable" actually meaning readable system-wide.) > > world-readable sound to me like everybody having read access, and > > implies that not everybody would have write access. > > my point was on: global = world = everybody = system wide > and therefore global != within one shell session.
True. If it was not for the historical baggage that the terms global and local hold, it would be just as logical to use the terms local, regional and global. Both, in my view, give the same sense of internal ordering, and neither really explains the actual difference between (what we today call) global and universal. I'm not arguing that people who have not heard the terms global and local will intuitively understand them, but do belive that people who have heard them will have a decent chance of understanding intuitively where universal fits in, and that they might be confused if the other scopes are named e.g. block and session, and think "Huh? How does that differ from global/local"? > > greetings, martin. > -- > cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix > offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world > -- > pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org > unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at > administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org > Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ > -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
