On 19 May, 09:01 pm, tom.pri...@ualberta.net wrote:
Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> writes:
You could also find some other way to split the argument list but "+"
doesn't seem particularly obscure in this context to me. (If there's
really a need to pass a literal "+" to a plugin we could add an
escaping syntax as well.)
I think if we are adding syntax, then we should also add escaping at
the
same time.
On a related note, when designing this kind of syntax, I think it is
often valuable to explictly leave some of the space as an explict
error,
to leave freedom to extend the syntax in the future.
I think this is 100% correct. This is part of why I don't want the
syntax added to `Options`. If it's a feature of, say, a "compose"
twistd plugin then you can always throw the whole "compose" twistd
plugin in the trash and start again. That gives you quite a lot of
space for syntax changes. :)
(And of course, not introducing a syntax at all leaves you even more
room... but talking this crowd out of inventing weird syntaxes is
probably an exercise in futility.)
Jean-Paul
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