Re: [PATCH] pretty: allow to override the built-in formats

> Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hmm, I'm not sure how I feel about being able to override formats other
>> than "reference".
> 
> Is the idea to introduce a parallel namespace to pretty.<name>?  I
> am not sure why that is a good idea than, say a single variable that
> says "to me, pretty.<name> would override even the built-in names".
> 
> I am not sure how I feel about being able to override built-in
> formats in the first place, though.
> 
> After all, pretty.<name> were introduced so that user-defined ones
> can be invoked with an equal ease as the built-in ones, but
> overriding common understanding among the users of the tool is a
> different story.