[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla archives return value

[Miles Bader]

Joshua Haberman <address@hidden> writes:
> > I think `archive-location' is a better name for the command though;
> > perhaps you could rename the old command to the new name?
> 
> 'archive-location' could be either a query or a register operation. 
> 'whereis-archive' is unambiguously a query.

Huh?  It doesn't contain a verb.  In tla most `modification' commands
contain verbs, whereas `noun' commands print the data the noun describes.
`archive-location' is a noun.

The exception of course, is dual query/modfication commands like `my-id'
[which of course wouldn't be a problem in this case either].

> It's sort of like std::string::empty() -- does it empty the string or
> tell you if it's empty?

That's a very different case because `empty' is both a verb and a predicate.

-Miles
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