From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : A peek to the other side
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 04:45:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnhi70k5.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SJ0PR10MB5488DC9B38CF5196D233C25CF33B9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com
Drew Adams wrote:
> Intention to be internal, as a _Note to (communal) self_
> that XYZ might be fragile, or might need to change soon, or
> has this limitation, or whatever, is better written out
> specifically in comments or doc - saying why, in what ways,
> under what conditions, etc. Specifics, reasons - think it
> out and express it explicitly. Don't just label: `--'.
Indeed, if it doesn't do anything it has no meaning ...
If it has meaning in the sense we hope it will be used
correctly by the guy writing the code and this meaning will
hopefully reach the guy reading the code and this meaning will
hopefully be correctly conveyed to him and hopefully acted
upon as intended then ... how often do we hope all that
will happen?
When it comes to humans, even a simple task like closing
a door or putting back a tool in its right place ... this
fails _at least_ one or two times out of five.
That kind of half-random stuff should never be built into
computers and programming languages ...
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-26 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-22 7:11 A peek to the other side emacsq via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-22 16:11 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-22 16:46 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-22 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-22 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-22 19:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-26 3:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-02-23 12:24 ` Arthur Miller
2022-02-23 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-26 3:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-22 18:21 ` Samuel Banya
2022-02-22 19:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-02-22 21:31 ` Samuel Banya
2022-02-23 12:05 ` Arthur Miller
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