X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:message-id:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=K3d PL18hyHUVbeKUkvjvli6ARBSmFVc+onME2gMDHAuzx5YBuyJrkn4a4Pr2ahSLtmF Tkk9cIAquaNTBjtEXO7q9UnRr6yp9Urbkt9fFCuC5sUkFn1UKyH1GvpFAFb74S7X AK8uFoPrWiuUjWYNZLylwq/xc04tiRysHCPdmLwc= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:message-id:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=pc4ybP+sh s5KXX6SD0ett1slAMk=; b=xzGcxLkROxzP/yNGOKmRXMb2Scc4+AiOy5yknFlcz 0DpiVOHL731bZS776vBCEElqzEfrZ8MgGT3vCvWVsbIjoeR93Hfa6mGFNZ52z18g IzsI08Q+YzwqsUaV/wLikiXW5zf7SpG6wd5QNz33yIpgELKvwld6DkmfyKaQvQf+ 7U= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=pola, Hx-languages-length:630, backup, Principle X-HELO: eddie.starwolf.com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Greywolf Subject: OLOCA Message-ID: <0c101a22-c00f-8cfd-ae9e-050330ab8efe@starwolf.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:19:50 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes POLA: Principle of least astonishment. When something behaves in a way which transcends the concept of not only "non-intuitive", but "counter-intuitive", by doing something that could be only more out of phase if it were also rotated 90 degrees on the Z axis, as it were, it is said to "violate the POLA". An example would be a backup program which, when restoring selected files, deleted everything else in the directory which was not on the restore list. Not that I'd know anything about that happening, of course, nor that duplicity would do such a thing when instructed to restore some files in place... --*greywolf; -- 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