On 14 Aug., 04:51, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > On the contrary. It's a statistical fallacy that leads to a lot of > wasted effort [...]
I like how you begin the paragraph "On the contrary" as if disagreeing with anything I said, insinuating I made the statistical fallacy you are talking about. > There's quite a big difference between positional independence, which > reduces the intrinsic complexity of the language (no need for rules > about which side 'wins', and eases ability to reason about code), > whilst the cost seems reasonable. I contrast this to the current > decision to both have no operator overloading of any kind and no > central body that picks known cases with no issues and adds them to > the language spec (e.g. BigInteger and BigDecimal) - I feel this is > overly restrictive and has quite a high cost in code readability. It's certainly an improvement over nothing, but also very limited. Appending and prepending to lists won't work, scaling vectors/matrices won't work. It all comes down to a complexity/benefit compromise, in other words taste and we all know how the old saying goes: De gustibus non est disputandum. > In regards to an eclipse plugin for replacing < with double-angle- > brackets to aid in readability - A standing offer of 50 bucks is > effective at making sure people who are thinking of it get > disillusioned. 50 bucks covers not even an hours worth and I'm > guessing that even if things go well you're looking at about a manweek > to get everything sorted out. So, 50 bucks could only be an insult. I feel like you're putting words in my mouth again. I was not talking about hiring a guy to do it for fifty bucks and then hand over the code. If someone feels inclined to write such a plugin (or whatever) and ends up putting a donation button on the website I would donate 50 bucks. I imagine most donations to free software projects are well below 50 dollars. If thinking "Nah, I'll not donate, don't wanna insult the guy!" works for you, great, not so much for me though. (See what I did there?) With kind regards Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
