On 12/04/2012 15:55, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dave Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 12/04/2012 15:43, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>>> People easily associates some ordering to numbers (usually
>>> the greater the better or in this case the worse) which
>>> creates another set of confusion.
>> What's the problem? The greater the number, the more warnings you get.
>> Simple.
>
> Not necessarily.
Your argument makes no sense. You said that there was a problem because
people will expect numbered -W options to be ordinal. But they *are* ordinal.
So people's expectations will be correct. You haven't said anything about
where the problem is yet, you've just asserted that there will be one without
demonstration or evidence, so again I ask: What's the problem?
It works just fine for -O, users understand and are happy with that, why
shouldn't it work just as well for -W?
cheers,
DaveK
