On Tue, 04 Mar 2008, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:51:10PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Yes, I know - I meant conceptually rather than in detail. notfixed
> > > should not leave the bug in a fixed/done-type state.
> > The problem is that giving it side effects (reopening the bug) means
> > that it's no longer associative.
>
> ("commutative" is the word you're looking for -- associative is (a+b)+c
> = a+(b+c))
Right.
> > That seems to violate (at least for me) the principle of least
> > surprise.
>
> Having "reopen NNN", "found NNN VER" and "notfixed NNN VER" be
> different probably already violates the principle of least surprise.
That may be, however, we need some command that does what notfixed
does, and notfixed is the best name that I've been able to come up
with. [If they all did the same thing, I'd deprecate all but one of
them.]
Don Armstrong
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