On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Xavier G. Domingo <[email protected]> wrote:
> El 14/07/2017 a las 12:20, Edward K. Ream escribió: > > Imo, section references is clearly the very worst idea that the > usually-brilliant Donald Knuth ever had. They are wretched engineering: > > I read somewhere that the purpose of section references was precisely to > have kinda "procedures" or "callbacks" in languages which do not have such > constructs, as HTML for example. So it is in fact a very clever idea in > that context! > And that's why Leo uses << imports>>, for example. > But I agree with you that it is of very few use (except maybe for > repetitive import code or similar) in languages like Python. > I agree. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
