[Junta] Move or copy proposal?

Harold Ancell hga at ancell-ent.com
Tue Sep 4 03:47:21 PDT 2007


At 05:10 AM 9/4/2007, Nils M Holm wrote:

>Hi David,
>
>I thought it may be usedful to move or copy my proposal[1] to
>the ERR5RS namespace. Some of the ideas outlined in the proposal
>might be useful in the ERR5RS process.
>
>Nils
>
>[1] http://scheme-punks.cyber-rush.org/wiki/index.php?title=A_Concrete_and_conservative_proposal

Agreed, with one modification:

Underneath I added a micro-essay based on the DRY principle (Don't
Repeat Yourself): i.e. "Move, don't remove, don't copy", for copies
of any bit of info will get out of sync.

(I a bit controversially apply this to code comments as well; to
expand on what I said, I consider all comments to be just what
one person, at one time, thought the code *might* be doing....)

                                        - Harold




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