Re: What's so special about objects/17/ ?

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2018, 19:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbz6MmmCYGbNaK7hr9U6Kaq9ANiw69M2_WPdMvX_w3o6w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmurmobd3.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 6:10 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> >> Oh, I think I misled you by saying "more important".
> >> ...
> > I do challenge the decision to take a hardcoded value, though, ...
>
> I do not find any reason why you need to say "though" here.

I caught myself using lots of filler-words lately.

  Though, however, I think, I would guess, IMHO....
  fills a lot of space without saying much.

I'll reduce that.

>  If you
> understood the message you are responding to that use of hardcoded
> value was chosen not to help the end-user experience, it should have
> been clear that we are in agreement.

We are, but for different reasons.

> I also sometimes find certain people here are unnecessarily
> combative in their discussion.  It this just some language issue?

certain people? ;-) I have issues with ambiguity in communication directed towards me, which is why I sometimes try to be very direct and blunt. Other times I strive on ambiguity as well (mostly in my reviews).