On 2020-11-25, Bob van der Poel <b...@mellowood.ca> wrote: > What does DWIN mean?
It's DWIM: "do what I mean". It refers to software (like PHP) that instead of requiring unambiguous input, it silently (and often incorrectly) guesses what ambiguous input is supposed to mean using heuristics known to and understood by only the developer. [I'm giving PHP developers the benefit of the doubt with the assumption that they do understand what they do and that that it makes sense to them.] > Hmmm, using colons? Yet another option :) That's quite certainly what Unix users are going to expect to use. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
