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Steven J Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> posted |
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2115173.05GpC6T6bt@××××××××××××××××××××.info, excerpted below, on Tue, 02 |
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Jun 2009 09:18:54 +0100: |
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> Surely it would be best simply to ask end-users which of a few variants |
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> they'd find easiest to work with? Or indeed for their suggestions; after |
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> all, they spend a lot more time engaging with the cli/config files than |
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> we do. |
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For this end-user, @ means set. Using it at a location other than the |
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beginning for something else is possible and I'd adapt, but it /is/ |
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confusing. |
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:: lacks that confusion. It does have the additional complication of |
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needing quoted or escaped in the shell, but users are supposed to do a |
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--pretend anyway, and after it doesn't output what's expected, a user of |
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any shell experience at all should conclude with little delay that it |
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/could/ be the escaping even if they aren't sure, and a quick suitably |
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escaped trial will confirm it. |
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So either proposed solution has its caveat that users will ultimately |
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need to learn to deal with, but I still prefer the unambiguity of ::. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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