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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: two UI usability tweak suggestions
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: two UI usability tweak suggestions |
Date: |
20 Sep 2003 09:19:53 +0900 |
Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> I did have a social engineering goal when I decided to make the
> validation and parsing in the cmd-*.c files roughly duplicate code
> rather than seek out the perfect high-level abstractions. The goal
> was to allow the cmd-*.c files to evolve independently and
> irregularly. I decided that _some_ aspects of perfect regularity in
> the command set was likely to be a misfeature.
Well I suppose the benefits and drawbacks of this are fairly clear;
presumably there'll be some code refactoring when tla has become more
mature. [I often write code in this sort of bottom-up-with-later-
refactoring manner, and it seems to result in much better abstractions
in the end, even if the middle stages can be downright ugly (though it
helps a lot to be _aware_ that's what you're doing :-)]
This particular irregularity bugs me no end, though -- I often want to
just type `patch-N', but can't, and I can never remember which commands
support it. I'll just look at the actual code, and see which approach
seems the cleanest/least work.
> So, do what you like -- just trying to give some hopefully helpful
> hints.
Carte blanche, eh? Ho ho ho...
-Miles
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