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On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò |
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<flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote: |
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> On 24/11/2012 10:19, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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>> Diego, remember the original point. It is obvious that a common |
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>> syntax is more coherent and thus easier for the world to understand. |
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>> Having that would be a good thing. It is also obvious that the ruby |
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>> syntax is problematic in the general case. |
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> And the Ruby syntax has been devised to suit the _installed commands_ |
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> for the most part: ruby18 and ruby19 are _the commands you run_. |
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Makes sense to me. |
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We are (almost) doing the same for python, but we can't have periods |
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in USE flag names. The underscore is a convenient replacement. |
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I suppose we could use a hyphen like php does, but I don't think it is |
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worth the effort at this point. |
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