On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 15:16, Tony Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 22/10/08 13:57, Nikolai Weibull wrote: >> [...] I really dislike this tendency >> computers have to not adhering to the mantra "do as I mean, not as I >> say".[...] > Sorry, but in the programming world I don't follow your "don't do as I > say, do as I mean" mantra. With me it's "do as I say, and if I talk > nonsense (if I'm using invalid syntax), tell me so". You miss the point entirely. If I say remove(list, 8, -1) I expect it to give me a list of the first 8 elements in list. I don't care if there actually are 8 elements in that list, I just want the first 8. If I need to I'll check that all items I require are in the resulting list. The point is that the specifics aren't important. It has nothing to do with syntax. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
