[Gnu-arch-users] Re: two UI usability tweak suggestions

[Miles Bader]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> I did have a social engineering goal when I decided to make the
> validation and parsing in the cmd-*.c files roughly duplicate code
> rather than seek out the perfect high-level abstractions.  The goal
> was to allow the cmd-*.c files to evolve independently and
> irregularly.  I decided that _some_ aspects of perfect regularity in
> the command set was likely to be a misfeature.

Well I suppose the benefits and drawbacks of this are fairly clear;
presumably there'll be some code refactoring when tla has become more
mature.  [I often write code in this sort of bottom-up-with-later-
refactoring manner, and it seems to result in much better abstractions
in the end, even if the middle stages can be downright ugly (though it
helps a lot to be _aware_ that's what you're doing :-)]

This particular irregularity bugs me no end, though -- I often want to
just type `patch-N', but can't, and I can never remember which commands
support it.  I'll just look at the actual code, and see which approach
seems the cleanest/least work.

> So, do what you like -- just trying to give some hopefully helpful
> hints.

Carte blanche, eh?  Ho ho ho...

-Miles
-- 
Yo mama's so fat when she gets on an elevator it HAS to go down.