In defense of qnext and qtop

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Sat Sep 5 06:53:42 CDT 2009


Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 04:45, Greg Ward<greg at gerg.ca> wrote:
>> Are those documented anywhere?  I only recently learned that patches
>> could be addressed by number, and had no idea that negative numbers
>> worked too.
>
> They're options, not negative-integer arguments.

I'm not using qnext/qprev, so at first I did not really care about these
new option names. I used qtop a little, but I'm migrating to qseries.

But since it has come up, let me say that I also don't like digits for
short options. They look confusing to me and I always seem to parse them
as negative numbers instead.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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