From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs. Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 20:16:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87im096wh5.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <831r6xctwu.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5122"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sv0m4L1AnHsMjuEdYhpKkdsKWeg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 20:17:42 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEbkT-00018b-PH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 20:17:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56504 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEbkS-0002qv-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEbjz-0002qn-4y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:17:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:33572) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEbjw-0000HU-Q4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:17:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEbju-0000Rj-Or for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 20:17:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132508 Archived-At: Arthur Miller wrote: > In a *shell world* one could logically think of cli utlities > as "apis" and options as function arguments, and I guess > pipe would be functional composition. Just a little mind > stretch if you don't mind the pun :). Indeed, in a programming language this is clear, more well-defined, reusable, functional, more modular, etc - maybe nicely "refactored" that way (unlikely) or even written that way to begin with (well it _is_ easier and more pleasant anyway!) fun-1(...) fun-2(...) (...) fun-n(...) However, $ this | is | wasting | forks and contains ugly pipes. Yukiduk! Instead one should do it this way: $ this -iwf -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal