Francesco Chemolli <kinkie@mika.elet.polimi.it>:
> Maybe some four-state toggle for the UI
> (force-as-no-and-force-all-dependants-as-no, weak-and-module (default),
> weak-and-builtin, strong) could be a good UI element.
No. No. A thousand times *no*. This is exactly the kind of nasty
UI complication I want to avoid -- it makes modeling the interface's
behavior too hard for the user.
We'll have *one* set of clear, *simple* deduction rules, with a
possible fallback to "ask the user" in case the right thing is not
deducible. I'll be happy to join an argument about what the rules
should be -- one advantage of the declarative-language-plus-Python
strategy is that trying out new deduction rules has low overhead --
but on the meta-principle of one simple set I will not budge.
-- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets -- Will Rogers
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