Re: [PATCH 1/3] completion: be nicer with zsh

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2012, 18:21 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s1q1RuHNo5O2rMDF_YHefagaXXwxg+5Lc4DCF7mZYm20w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In any case, there's no need for ad hominem arguments; there is a
>> problem when using zsh, that's a fact.
>
> There was no ad-hominem argument at all.
>
> Read your two lines I quoted "... the code is now actually understandable
> (at least to me), while before it looked like voodoo", which was your
> words.  What does it tell the reader?  The patch author (1) did not
> understand existing code (voodoo) and (2) the change is a good thing as a
> style/readability improvement.

I disagree. Another possibility is that the code actually looked like voodoo (it was obfuscated). You might disagree, but the fact that one of the main editors (the most used?) doesn't even recognize the syntax of this code I think is pretty telling.

> I was saying that I did not want to see that in the justification, because
> (2) is not true, while (1) may be.

That's not true: (2) might be true; at least it's debatable.

> The patch as-is is a good change that works around issues with zsh's POSIX
> emulation, and that is sufficient-enough justification. IOW, we are in
> agreement on the later half of your sentence.

So, I shall just remove that part of the explanation?

-- 
Felipe Contreras