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Re: Ideas for the future

From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: Ideas for the future
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:23:46 +0100
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On 05.03.2012 12:16, Andreas Vogel wrote:

     if [ "feature" = unavail ] ; then
         set hidden=1
     else
         set hidden=0
     fi
     menuentry "Boot memtest86" --hidden $hidden { ... }

for looks nicer opposed to

     if [ "feature" = unavail ] ; then
         set hidden="--hidden"
     else
         set hidden=
     fi
     menuentry "Boot memtest86" $hidden { ... }
It's a question of personal preference and I personally prefer the second one. And even if behaviour of optional arguments is changed it doesn't mean that we should increase bitrot by having different interface conventions for some options. 

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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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