On Tue, 3 May 2005, Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >> IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this indentation even > >> though only a minority of the entries was using "---help---" even > >> before this patch. > > > > So why exactly has to be removed? Is it ugly? > > IMO yes, it's less readable for me than "help". ¢¢
the main problem with having two alternatives for the same thing (in *any* context) is that it gives beginners a distorted sense of what is acceptable usage. if you accept both "help" and "---help---", then you just *know* that a beginner will notice that and start thinking, "hmmm ... well, if both of those are alright, maybe "--help--" or "-help-" is alright, too. and maybe it's just the leading hyphens that really count, not the trailing hyphens. and maybe ..." kbuild is already over-convoluted as it is. please don't give folks even more redundant ways to do exactly the same thing. rday
