:-) You should do a "Hitler Discovers Leo Sentinels in his Codebase" video!
Seth On 5/8/10, zpcspm <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 8, 11:58 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1. Some people will object to Leo sentinels >> no matter how well hidden they are. > > When I started using leo for coding and was storing the outline in > version control, I was taking leo sentinels in diffs as "garbage". > This might sound like blasphemy, but this is how I was feeling about > sentinels. > A way to mitigate the effect of sentinels is to colorize the canonical > diff in a way that just hides the sentinels at all, by displaying them > with the same color as the background. > But... do you notice how I stated it? I said "mitigation", implying > that sentinels are something bad. > I wouldn't risk to generalize, but I think personally for me such > attitude is a kind of psychological barrier. Oh well, at least it was. > Nowadays I tend to treat sentinels as a trade-off. They make the diffs > a bit uglier, they make the codebase a bit bigger, but they add > another dimension, by providing a structure, a hierarchy which flat > text files lack. I think it is a fair trade-off. More than that - it's > a profitable trade-off. > If flat text files can be seen as middle-age "scrolls", sentinels are > something that transform them into "books". > I'm going to spice up my post a bit, by adding a link to a hilarious > short movie that everybody have probably seen already. I think it > perfectly illustrates the human attitude towards something that's new > and yet unusual. I think it applies to leo sentinels as well. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cd7Bsp3dDo > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" 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/leo-editor?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" 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/leo-editor?hl=en.
