From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: symlink chain.
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 21:28:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BF111510-8BED-426D-A7F0-89455369759A@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150104173448.ZM19453@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Jan 4, 2015, at 8:34 PM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 12:49pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } But, would we not agree that it is the natural thing to prefer
> } cumulative switches over limiting switches? Is it not intuitive that
> } as you 'add' switches you 'add' features?
>
> There's no answer for this that fits all cases. In an ideal world,
> one would always think of the minimal action and then build on it,
> but the world is rarely ideal. More often there exists something
> that has a purpose or mechanism very similar to a new idea, and so
> that something is altered to support the new idea. A lot of times,
> that isn't an additive process.
Also consider an alternate (and equally valid) point of view in which
commands should be a sort of variable-length encoding. That is, the
shortest commands (the ones without switches) would ideally represent
*common* actions, not necessarily *minimal* actions.
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-05 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-27 4:50 Ray Andrews
2014-12-27 23:38 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 17:03 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-02 18:42 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 20:27 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-01-02 21:19 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 21:24 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-02 21:36 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 21:53 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 22:21 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-02 23:42 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 1:08 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 5:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-03 5:53 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 7:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-03 17:14 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 20:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-03 21:13 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-03 21:42 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-03 22:42 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-04 0:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-04 3:45 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-04 0:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-04 3:35 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-04 8:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-04 20:49 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-05 1:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-05 2:28 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2015-01-05 4:24 ` Ray Andrews
2015-01-02 22:22 ` Bart Schaefer
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