On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes <[email protected]> wrote:
> It *is* more usable. Usable software should be intuitive. There is nothing > intuitive about 2>. It's not about saving the characters, it's about > re-thinking *why* things are the way they are. Fish changes lots of > "standard" things, that's what makes it useful IMO. They've made a design > decision to implement things based on their value, not on the fact that it > is standard. It's part of the design philosophy for fish > It's not entirely arbitrary using 2> to redirect standard error: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor That's not to say that it's the only way to do it... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
