On 10/6/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [....] > I'm not arguing that people who have not heard the terms global and > local will intuitively understand them, but do belive that people who > have heard them will have a decent chance of understanding intuitively > where universal fits in, and that they might be confused if the other > scopes are named e.g. block and session, and think "Huh? How does that > differ from global/local"?
I agree that local and global mean something to programmers. Universal does not, and though it does suggest something bigger than global, it leaves you wondering what that might be. I think the novice users are more likely to get it and experienced users just as likely as before, provided they know what a session is and what a system is -- because those names come closer to sauing in one word what the variables actually do in the shell: session means for the session; system-wide means for the system. Block could mean a number of things in computing, so it's ambiguous; but block-wide is clear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
