9 Jul
2018
9 Jul
'18
5:50 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 07:32:41 -0400 "Perry E. Metzger"
<perry(a)piermont.com> wrote:
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Perry E. Metzger perry(a)piermont.com
On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 21:52:09 -0600 Warner Losh
<imp(a)bsdimp.com>
wrote:
Actually, it occurs to me that noisewords aren't actually needed. The
printed help during completion can handle conveying the information
that noisewords provided.
Perry
It would also let the program do 'noise
words' like TOPS-20 did w/o having to actually parse them...
Noise words are a thing Unix is missing, but given the lack of
CMND JSYS style completion, the reason for the lack is obvious --
nothing generates noisewords so nothing needs to ignore them. This
is yet another cool thing clang's --complete hack could make widely
available, though then we'd need a standard for noisewords. clang
--complete is an interesting variation on my ideas within
the realm of doing non-standard weird things and starts to place
the burden of knowledge on the program itself, which is more in
line with the thinking of Unix and the main stream of OOish
thought we've know about since the early 70s with smalltalk and
other such pioneering things.
Precisely. The clang hack is exactly what one would want if it could
be made popular.
Perry