On 2012-02-08 18:28, James McCoy wrote: | > | > Motivation: | > | > | > | > - Recommended practise. The $() is recommend by many[2]. It nests easily. | > | > - Readability. In high resolution display a "tick" is hard to see. | > | > Different font may also make reading the "tick" difficult to distinguish. | > | > - Typing convenience. The backtick key may be placed in difficult | > | > position in non-US keyboard. E.g acrobatics is needed with FI-keyboard | > | > by pressing three keys in succession: AltGr + key + Space char | > | > Maintenance. It's a good idea to keep refactoring also old code in the | > spirit of XP. | | I prefer the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach. Any code | change, no matter how trivial, risks introducing a bug.
That's an old fear based approach which hinders progress. If Gnome would have done that we'd be still be in ice age. Better alternative is to keep moving forward with small increments. Like with this one proposed. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
