well, i haven't pushed yet, and can certainly go one more round on the code, and the man pages, and the tests. ;-) clearly i like it, but clearly i'll also go with the consensus. y'all chat about it today,
(it's true that foo=-3 isn't nearly as bad as foo#-3, which was where we started with this syntax style. foo##3 was a clear win in that case, for me at any rate. when i switched from # to =, i already had foo==3.) paul david wrote: > Ralph wrote: > > > Hi Paul, > > > > > as a convenience feature when typing negative offsets, "foo:-n" and > > > "foo=-n" can be entered as "foo::n" and "foo==n" respectively. > > > > I dislike this. Must be my preference for Python's `one way to do it' > > over Perl's `there must still be one more way we haven't added yet'. > > :-) > > Agreed. In general, I think it's best to minimize the > feature set, and therefore testing and documentation. And > it helps reduce confusion between what might some day be > similar features given some other enhancement. And reduce > the likelihood of unintended interactions between features, > always a concern with nmh. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Nmh-workers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers ---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 51.4 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
