[SM-Discuss] devel sorcery & gaze new functionality

Duane Malcolm d.malcolm at auckland.ac.nz
Tue Jan 25 17:40:34 EST 2005


Andrew wrote:
> Wrong word sorry, i had just woken up when i wrote that. Anyways, someday
> we might have more spell states than held and exiled and i dont want to
> end up polluting the gaze command namespace, if it has the show prefix
> its less messy. Although i'd rather have it be
> 
> gaze show held
> gaze show exiled

Sorry if I've repeated something that has already been discussed, I 
admit I haven't been following the mailing list closely.

However, isn't "gaze show" redundant. When you gaze at something, you 
expect something to be showing.

Also, there are "gaze history", "gaze activity", "gaze search 'phrase'" 
but not "gaze show activity", gaze show history" or "gaze show search 
'phrase'"

If you mix the structure, users will be scratching their heads saying 
"Now was it 'gaze show held' or 'gaze held'? I can never remember, I 
know it's "gaze history", so I'll try "gaze held". Arrrg, I wish the 
developers of sourcemage 20 years ago chose one structure"

Just some thoughts, maybe I should go back to my work.

Cherio, Duane

> 
> oh well.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:29:17PM -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> 
>>And I thought we're trying to be "parallel," 'cause "orthogonal" usually 
>>means "contrary to" or "regardless of" ;-D. FWIW, my variant is shorter...
>>
>>Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:18:26PM +0100, neuron wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:48:08AM -0800, Andrew wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>    
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Why not simply "gaze exiled" or even "gaze exile" (it's both a 
>>>>>>verb and a noun)?
>>>>>>      
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I think we were trying to be orthoganol to gaze show-held
>>>>>    
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Exactly :)
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>
>>>Well, not quite "exactly".  I thought it was spelled "orthogonal".
>>>
>>>Seth
>>>
>>>
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