On 04/11/2013 02:47 PM, Mattias Engdegård wrote: > 11 apr 2013 kl. 14.24 skrev C. Michael Pilato: > > Do you really claim that any set of single- and two-letter codes is as good > as another?
No, I cannot make, and am not making, that claim. I do claim the following: * The long-form conflict actions such as "postpone" and "mine-conflict" are symbols, and as such should be solely available in their literal, English-only form. * A user seeking a shorter syntax for an English-only long-form symbol will naturally find that abbreviations comprised of key letters from that original sequence are easier to remember/guess than arbitrary abbreviations. That's why we have "p" and "mc" today as opposed to "1" and "랑". * The benefit of treating any of these items we're discussing here as translatable non-symbols (natural language input) is outweighed by the cost of doing so. -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Enterprise Cloud Development
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