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Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers |
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:09:55 -0400 |
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
>
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, Paul Fox, 2013/04/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, Paul Fox, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, Ken Hornstein, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, Paul Fox, 2013/04/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, Ken Hornstein, 2013/04/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, Paul Fox, 2013/04/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, Ken Hornstein, 2013/04/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, Ralph Corderoy, 2013/04/18
Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, David Levine, 2013/04/17
Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers, David Levine, 2013/04/18