Re: [Taoscript-lang] rot13.tao reveals Tao (or documentation?) shortcoming :-<

[Josef 'J. S. <ju...@gm...>]

Hi!

At Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:08:35 +0200, Limin Fu wrote:

> This is a re-sended message which was not previously sent to this
> mailing list by mistake :)

What mail user agent (aka mail client) do you use? I use wanderlust
and rather happen to send answers to too many recipents - Per default
it addresses answers both to the author of a message and to the list
the messages was delivered to - which only makes limited sense because
the author of a message usually is subscribed to that list and
therefore receives the message twice. That is one of the few things
mutt is better at :-)

BTW: You should consider not to use TOFU - (your) *t*ext *o*n-top,
*f*ull-quote *u*nderneath (it)[1]. There are several reasons why one
should not use it. The most important (at least to me) is that
switching back and forth between the answer and the original message
takes more time and is more confusing than reading the question that
is immediately followed by the answer.

> I understand your motivation for having such capabilities. Your
> suggestions are very good, by myself alone I can't have prevision
> for all possible important features for the language. Thank you for
> the suggestions :-)

The best way of finding lacking features of a programming language is
writing programs in it. If one finds out that something cannot be done
one has to decide if one wants to implement the feature(s) require for
that task or to refrain from supporting it. Recursion is such a
feature: FORTRAN 77 does not support it - by intention. Such design
decisions should not to be fixed for eternity but should be overhauled
now and then. Guess what? Fortran 90 *does* support recursion.

[1] The correct etymology of the acronym is German "Text oben
Fullquote unten" (I tried my best to provided an appropriate
translation that results in the same acronym).

All for now,

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
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