[Oberon] Oberon Digest, Vol 148, Issue 4

[Søren Renner]

"Hard-coded"? So a configuration file would be better? Why not let the
source code be the config file?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:00 PM, <oberon-request at lists.inf.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 20:09:50 +0200
> From: Richard Hable <informujo at aon.at>
> To: "John R. Strohm" <strohm at airmail.net>, ETH Oberon and related
>         systems <oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] NW programming style
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> Am 2016-09-06 um 23:18 schrieb John R. Strohm:
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> > So you should lock the users into only the configurations That YOU
> > feel are acceptable???
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> What gives you that idea? Applications may support different
> configurations of mouse button assignments as they wish.
>
> But for the operating system these are just buttons without specific
> meaning, only to be distinguished by their physical positions on the
> mouse. No need to assign potentially misleading names to them.
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> > As opposed to letting the user set it up the way HE wants it???  And
> > making it easier for him to do so?
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> How does referring to mouse buttons by names instead of positions within
> source code allow users to set up their own configurations?
>
> > Seriously, the prohibition against hard-coded magic numbers has been
> > established practice for DECADES, and the reasons are WELL-known.
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> There's nothing magic about the position of a mouse key. But there seems
> to be something wrong with your shift key. ;)
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> Richard
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