On Tue, 3 May 2005, Bodo Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> >> IMHO, Kconfig files are quite readable due to this indentation even
> >> though only a minority of the entries was using "---help---" even
> >> before this patch.
> >
> > So why exactly has to be removed? Is it ugly?
>
> IMO yes, it's less readable for me than "help". ¢¢
the main problem with having two alternatives for the same thing (in
*any* context) is that it gives beginners a distorted sense of what is
acceptable usage.
if you accept both "help" and "---help---", then you just *know* that
a beginner will notice that and start thinking, "hmmm ... well, if
both of those are alright, maybe "--help--" or "-help-" is alright,
too. and maybe it's just the leading hyphens that really count, not
the trailing hyphens. and maybe ..."
kbuild is already over-convoluted as it is. please don't give folks
even more redundant ways to do exactly the same thing.
rday
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