Rene Engelhard wrote:
Hi,
T. J. Frazier wrote:
We thought it useful to say something like:
" **--enable-check-only=yes** "
" No environment file will be generated "
Is it not. It is redundant. People who used --enable-check-only should have
read the description it at which time it would have been clear.
Regards,
Rene
You are of course correct, that the suggested information is redundant;
that is usually a pejorative term, especially in programming.
However, what we are dealing with here is human-to-human communication--
from the script-writer to the script-user--and redundancy, or
repetition, is an important part of human communication.
We found such redundancy useful, because of the following logic chain:
1) Who are the most frequent users of obscure and arcane parameters?
Why . . . we are! The RE's, themselves.
2) Who gets the dull job of verifying that such things work? The new
guy, typically a Clueless Newbie (CN), who is already suffering from
information overload.
3) Who is most likely to make an error in using such things? The CN, of
course. Therefore, it benefits us directly, to make the learning process
as reasonably painless as we can.
4) How much of our user-developer base could be called "CN"? The obvious
answer is, "Not many, at any one time." But the important answer is,
"/Everybody/ starts that way." Hence, minor efforts that make the
process more user-friendly are very much in order.
HTH, /tj/
--
T. J. Frazier
Melbourne, FL
(TJFrazier on OO.o)
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