"...for neither" - really?
Richmond
richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 17:45:32 EDT 2014
On 26/07/14 00:35, Monte Goulding wrote:
> Sounds good to me Richard although Jacque did get a bee in her bonnet when we started adding adjectives to the language last year (globally, recursively) ;-)
Those are adverbs.
Richmond.
>
> Personally I think all IO should at least have an asynchronous option similar to sockets so there should be a `with message` option on everything. Actually I think just about everything that blocks should have that option because blocking is just plain bad for everyone but the absolute newbie.
>
> Cheers
>
> Monte
>
>
> On 26 Jul 2014, at 5:34 am, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Monte recently helped me with a shell task by reminding me that I can use this for asynchronously calling another process:
>>
>> open tSomeProcessCommand for neither
>>
>> Useful enough, but the syntax kinda bugs me.
>>
>> When you read the full Dictionary entry for "open process" it kinda makes sense, but it feels a bit silly to type it.
>>
>> Anyone here think it's worth the dev team's time to propose "asynchronously" as a synonym for "for neither"?
>>
>> Better still, anyone here know their way around the code base and care enough about this sort of nit-picking to add that?
>>
>> Is it even worth thinking about?
>>
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