At 2025-02-23T23:34:36-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM G. Branden Robinson > <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At 2025-02-24T03:36:28+0100, onf wrote: > > > I think the point is that such filenames aren't being used, > > > > No, that's not "the point". It's _your_ point, > > Hey, originally it was *my* point :-P
Any chance you could repossess it? 😅 > > > so breaking compatibility (and making adding comments to these > > > requests annoying) > > > > Your annoyance is a subjective thing. I find inconsistent > > programming language grammar _more_ annoying. > > All of our views about design trade-offs are subjective. Agreed. > Tolerating a slightly inconsistent grammar for a more back-compatible, > more DWIM syntax is a perfectly reasonable position. I quibble with "perfectly," but otherwise concur. > Still, it's hard to gather consensus when only three people have > expressed opinions at all, and one of them only tepidly. For me, it's > not a hill I even care about lingering on very long, let alone dying > on, and if it's equally NBD to everyone else, it might end up being an > executive decision in the end. But I see merit in both approaches, While my top preference is to convince the world through the beauty of my airtight arguments (>cough<), I'd prefer empirical data to an executive decision based on more debatable/PL-esthetic factors. But despite my prayers, a giant repository of all human-authored *roff documents has not materialized on the web. > and I don't think your greater annoyance at one automatically makes it > inferior. Indeed not. I see that I omitted a comparand above. I find inconsistent programming language grammar more annoying _than_ breaking compatibility with what I believe to a pretty uncommon case. I don't think a comparison of onf's and my respective levels of annoyance with things leads anywhere productive. That is in fact the main thrust of my criticism of range voting over ranked-choice voting. But that's a discussion for some other forum. Regards, Branden
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