Subject:
|
Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad.dev
|
Date:
|
Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:16:07 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2214 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.cad.dev, Dan Boger writes:
> > > I'm sorry, I can't understand why it's "too difficult" to enter {} by
> > > hand. It's on the standard keyboard. The people who actually edit
> > > stuff by hand have the requirement of knowing how to use a keyboard :)
> > > I mean, when SMTP format was design, you think they were worried that
> > > people will have a hard time typing "@"? *grin*
> By adding the {}, we ensure that a mistake like this just couldn't
> happen. Or at least very unlikely to happen.
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> :)
I don't know about American keyboards, but at my Swedish kb, '{' and '}' are
at AltGr+7 and AltGr+0, and it collides with Swedish special characters in
the ASCII table; it has to be set on codepage 850 or whatever it was. I find
them somewhat hard to find even though I program in C from time to time.
And, for example, when printing out C code from a Swedish OS, it happens
very often that those brackets come out totally wrong. Well, such problems
are less common than for some years ago, but still it is a source for
errors. (Look at some posts at lugnet.loc.se, and you'll see what those
ASCII table settings can course!)
My SEK 0.50 is that we *recommend* the use of a comment sign. We can discuss
if it should be // ' COMMENT ; /*...*/ or the one I've used some times: REM.
COMMENT is the one I've seen in use most times, but it's lo-o-ong IMHO.
Maybe more than one, (maybe maybe all of them)
META or maybe {META} would be neat, but only for future meta-commands. I
would prefer a shorter sign there, too: Like $ without space. $LTRAX for
example.
One more thing: The header has severeal lines of file info. This info could
be even more standardized, but I don't like to see any META or COMMENT signs
there, that will only make it harder for people to read, and call to a
massive software update with little gain.
So, to make this spec work even more complicated I suggest there will be a
difference between compulsary usage and recommended ditto.
/Tore
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
154 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
