Re: Naming _another_ lacking puzzle piece

[Janek Warchoł]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:07 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
>> would it hurt us really much to have multiple overrides
>> "accumulate cruft"?  I suppose that in real-life situation there won't
>> be that much cruft accumulated - but i might be completely wrong.
>
> \voiceTwo \voiceOne \oneVoice
>
> Would you expect that after this sequence, the state is like just after
> \voiceTwo?

Good point.

>> In other words, we have \override, \tweak, \set, \revert, \unset,
>> \undo, \single (and maybe more).  It's getting confusing, at least for
>> me.  I'd prefer to decrease the number of such functions, not increase
>> them (without deleting functionality, of course).
>
> You can't call functionality without an interface.  A prefix like
> \temporary is better than a full new interface.
>
> It's really totally unrewarding to do this kind of work.  Instead of
> "Great, finally we get a tool for doing x in a straightforward way",
> everybody is always hollering "oh no, not another tool.  Can't we just
> live with the deficient state?"
>
> Have you ever tried working with a combined hammer, tongs, screwdriver,
> drill multi-tool?  If you have, you'd value a clean, sorted toolbox with
> simple and separate tools that all do just one job, and do it well.
>
> Again: if you don't _care_ about breaking things, then _don't_ learn how
> to avoid it, and you will be just fine.
>
> Me, I am annoyed at broken things.  So I want to have the tools
> available that help me deal with that.  But people are free to ignore
> that offer.

David, from your reaction i deduce that you felt attacked by me.  I'm
sorry as this wasn't my intent.
I want to have this situation explained as soon as possible.  Please,
choose any voip software you like (i understand that you don't want a
gmail account nor skype account because of their privacy policy) which
can run on Ubuntu, and let's have a voice chat, ok?  I can be online
tomorrow 9-22 your time.

worried Janek