From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: ... and now for something completely different: User Friendliness
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:22:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ny95o3ld9.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3of6n1m8b.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:10:28 +0100")
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, larsi@gnus.org wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> I like the defcustom syntax, maybe something like this would work:
>>
>> (defcustom snmp-notification-trap 1
>> "The snmp trap notification"
>> :type integer)
>>
>> (defcustom snmp-notification-inform 2
>> "The snmp inform notification"
>> :type integer)
>
> That's possible, but it's quite verbose...
It can be auto-generated. The general idea of defcustom, however, is
much cleaner than an invented language that uses XML or something
else IMO. Especially since the wizards you want will be written in
Lisp.
Generally, user friendliness leads to code verbosity in my experience.
Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-13 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-02 7:37 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 10:11 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-01-02 18:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 19:29 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-01-02 19:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 22:10 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-01-06 16:05 ` Wes Hardaker
2003-01-07 5:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-07 15:27 ` Wes Hardaker
2003-01-08 4:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-08 6:31 ` Wes Hardaker
2003-01-08 15:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-01-11 20:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-13 0:44 ` Wes Hardaker
2003-01-13 18:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-13 19:22 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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