Huidae Cho wrote: > > re. "sep= changed to separator= while keeping backward compatibility" > > > > two points- > > ) I think it should be changed to fs= to match the rest of GRASS. > > > > ) backwards compatibility with grass7 (trunk) is nice to do, but > > ) it is not at all guaranteed. ie we can break things as we like. it's > > ) the dev-branch6 where backwards compatibility must be strictly > > ) followed.
I would suggest separator=, changing the rest of GRASS to match if compatibility is desired. fs= isn't immediately clear, while separator= is, and can be abbreviated to sep=. More generally, we should try to avoid using abbreviations in option names. The user can abbreviate them if they desire, but should have the option of using a non-abbreviated name for clarity. I know that creates problems with multi-word names. I will look into the possibility of supporting multi-word abbreviations at some point. If that works out, it would be possible to call it field_separator and abbreviate it to fs=, fsep= etc (not sure about sep=). -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
