On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I'm a bit shocked that you haven't found a glaring hole in the idea.  I'm
> starting to confront how good this scheme might be.  For example, it looks
> like @file! does not need to care whether the public or private files are
> committed to bzr.  As another example, the docs will no longer have to
> describe the 9 (!) ways to create external files.
>


This is a very serious boon.  I try to track the discussions here, but I
can't because everything everybody says is "this would be good for @thin,
but @shadow wouldn't work," "Yeah, you're right," etc.  They become a
shorthand that stops me from comprehension.  And certainly anybody
approaching Leo has got to stop short when they confront all those @
thingies.

I'd pipe up more if not for this.  My approach to the Leo stable of concerns
is very different, but I can't relate it to your problem du jour, so I just
watch and muse . . .


Seth


> Obviously, we can call @file! anything we want.  My thinking is that the
> new @file might actually be all there is, so @file would seem to be the
> clearest choice.  I'm not wild about @shadow, because @file! is an amalgam
> of @thin, @auto, @shadow and maybe even @edit.  We probably should leave the
> final name for later, after all the details become clearer.
>


Whatever you call the @ directive, it seems your public vs. private files
are really external vs. "Leo-specific".


Seth

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