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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modified load-path proposal
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bmi392j.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EWJvp-0002pQ-Ub@mail.agora-net.com> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:37:33 -0500")

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:

>    From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
>    Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:04:58 +0000
>
>    We could enforce this by [...]
>    I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts (again).
>
> if your design requires enforcement, someone will want to
> redesign it later to get around it.

Not sure what you mean by "to get around it".  Do you mean that
someone will change the design so that the interface does the
enforcement itself; or that if the interface is precise about what it
allows, someone will want to change it to be more permissive in future?

>  you might as well
> put yourself in the third-party-programmer's shoes from
> the beginning.  perlis sez: simplicty follows complexity.

perlis?

        Neil



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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-30 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-13 18:21 Modified load-path proposal Neil Jerram
2005-10-13 18:40 ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-13 22:08   ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-14  0:37     ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-14  1:28       ` Andreas Rottmann
2005-10-15 11:17         ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-15 15:03           ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-15 17:53             ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-22 23:16           ` Kevin Ryde
2005-10-28 17:45             ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-30 18:04               ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-30 18:15                 ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-10-30 20:37                 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-10-30 22:59                   ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2005-10-31 10:55                     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-10-31 19:22                       ` Neil Jerram
2005-11-08 12:37                         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-10-31 13:17                   ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-10-30 23:48                 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-10-31 13:20                   ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-10-31 19:20                   ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-31 23:54                     ` Kevin Ryde
2005-11-12  9:47                       ` Neil Jerram
2005-11-01 23:31                     ` Vorfeed Canal
2005-11-12 17:54                       ` Neil Jerram
2005-11-02  8:44                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-12-03 13:05                   ` Neil Jerram
2005-12-13  8:38                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-12-16  0:16                       ` Neil Jerram
2005-12-16  1:00                         ` Neil Jerram
2005-12-16  9:55                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-01-07 13:37                           ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-11  4:49                             ` steve tell
2006-01-12 18:01                               ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-15 11:24       ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-15 15:01         ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-15 17:49           ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-14  7:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-15 11:55   ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-15 15:40     ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-17  8:04       ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-17 17:52         ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-18  8:23           ` Search path for C libraries Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-18 10:12             ` Vorfeed Canal
2005-10-17 17:54         ` Modified load-path proposal Neil Jerram
2005-10-18  7:57           ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-19 22:30             ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-20  7:56               ` Vorfeed Canal
2005-10-20  8:05               ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-20 22:23                 ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-21  7:59                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2005-10-17 18:10       ` Neil Jerram
2005-10-18 16:16         ` Greg Troxel
2005-10-18 21:24           ` Vorfeed Canal
2005-10-19 22:29           ` Neil Jerram

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