Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi,

On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:01:40 +0100
Guillaume Rousse <address@concealed> wrote:

> Le 03/03/2014 16:49, IKEDA Soji a écrit :
> >>>     May use English names along with non-English names, however, if
> >>>     multiple English names are given, only shortest one may be used.
> >>>
> >>>     e.g. $! and $ERRNO may be used but not $OS_ERROR.
> >>>       Anyone shouldn't blame use of $ERRNO and others shouldn't blame
> >>>       use of $!.
> >> I disagree: why should we allow both forms to coexist ? What would we 
> >> gain ?
> >
> > I ask myself, "Is anyone can feel unreasonable to use English
> > names?".  My deep psyche answers: "Someones prefer to $$ and others
> > prefer to $PID.  They are havng unfinished struggles on the Net and
> > real world even today".  So I proposed this issue not to be unfinised.
> You're still not answering my question: what would *we* gain by letting 
> this kind of inconsistency subsist in the code *we* have to maintain ?
> 
> Basically, I just don't care about what the rest of the world think of 
> '$!' vs '$ERRNO', and other similar cosmetic issue. I just do care about 
> the preferences of people currently involved in Sympa. And my own 
> preference goes toward enforcing overall consistency, for better 
> readability first, for easier refactoring second.

We including you may normalize system variables to English
forms.  However, such policy wouldn't be enforced on any contributors
nor any future developers.  Such I proposed.

Regards,

--- Soji

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