X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Command line arguments Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:48:51 -0700 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1351606847888-94081.post@n5.nabble.com> <20121031182143.M67652@ds.net> <20121031194051.GL67410@justpickone.org> <20121101174144.M43908@ds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20121101174144.M43908@ds.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 11/1/2012 10:54 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: > I got in the habbit of always using the "{}" (even if they aren't > absolutely necessary) to avoid such issues on general principal. I don't think it's conducive to productivity to constantly type things that aren't needed for the simple sake of consistency - especially special characters which are by nature harder to type. As they say "a foolish consistency is the hobglobin of little minds". I add "syntactic sugar" only when required, much like a native English speaker doesn't shy away from things like contractions under a habit of always spelling out all words even if they aren't absolutely necessary... YMMV. -- Andrew DeFaria I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple