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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Blocks
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 11:25:14 -0600
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Hello Timothy,
-
- >Very nice. 'Add' is unambiguous but not too specific.
-
- I agree; (wow) Actually, "Append" is a much better word in this case. It
- clearly states what will happen, and has the same meaning as Append. If
- you really wanted an alternate name, "Attach Selection" would even be
- better than "Add". In context, "Add" is meaningless.
-
- >You're right. It's too much. I prefer the terms "Hide Block", or
- >"Deselect Block". Using the word 'all' in there doesn't seem to make
- >much sense.
-
- Hide Selection; as was pointed out earlier today, "Selection" is more
- apt than "Block".
-
- >A fellow SGI lover, eh? :) Did you know that SGI financially supports
- >its users groups, develops, supports, and advertizes new technology, has
- >a good customer service department, uses an optimized implementation of
- >UNIX, a very efficient GUI, and countless of other things that Atari
- >would never be caught dead doing? Emphasis on the word 'dead' for
- >Atari. Sheesh.
-
- If you pay $200,000 for a computer, you can more or less expect these
- things... :)
-
- >Talk about ugly code. I'm sorry, but this is a mess. You're violating
- >numerous rules of readable code. Is that why you said not to cover this
- >subject? And those semicolons and colons all lined up there are ugly,
- >distracting, and out of place.
-
- Ugly, maybe, but I'm sure it is readable to him (otherwise he would do it
- differently). Your code, while somewhat better, seems to be missing a
- few things:
-
- > case Cancel:
-
- Constants should be uppercase. IE: CANCEL
-
- > case Abandon:
- > close;
- >
- > case Reload:
- > reload;
-
- There are no "break" commands here?!? This means that if ABANDON was
- selected, close, reload, save, close, save as, and close would all be
- performed. Not a Good Thing (TM).
-
-
- >There. That's better. Now that I can read it, I can ask you why you are
- >closing upon save. Why? That's the most annoying feature of First
- >Word. Don't close on save. If I want to close, I'll TELL it to close.
-
- This I can agree to...
-
- >We need to make a standard that is robust, applicable to a wide range of
- >applications, and bullet-proof. We can do it, but it'll take a lot of
- >work. We've accomplished just about everything already.
-
- We have accomplished quite a bit... With some more work we'll have a
- really good standard.
-
- >Ha! Do you think Atari's going to be around that long? They don't
- >develop computers any more. We're just trying to salvage what's left of
- >the developers and make our twilight years the best they can be.
-
- My computer does what I need; as long as it continues to do so, I'll
- stick with it. I already have a great word processor, a great
- spreadsheet, a great terminal program (better than anything else I
- have ever seen; thanks to Wolfgang Wander), and everything else I
- need.
-
-
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