On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Julian Leviston <jul...@leviston.net> wrote: >> I think "Tiles prevent syntax errors" is a red herring. Sure, you can >> prevent stupid typos by offering only tiles with correctly spelled >> keywords, but that's not really a major problem in ordinary >> experience. The more pernicious errors aren't especially affected one >> way or the other by tile-based systems. (You could just as accurately >> say that strongly-typed systems prevent errors.) > > When you're about to type the next "tile", you're given options... anything > outside of those options is impossible, so the computer doesn't put it in, > because syntactically it wouldn't make sense.
There's nothing specific to tiles in what you wrote. You could do the same just as easily with a keyboard-based system. This is what I mean when I say that "tiles prevent syntax errors" is not accurate; it's confusing two separate things. Again: more accurately you could say, "strong typing can prevent syntax errors"... tiles have nothing to do with it, really. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net ) _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
