Screen vs Page vs Card

Dave Cragg dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Tue Mar 30 03:09:47 EST 2004


At 6:01 pm -0800 29/3/04, Ken Norris wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>>  I'm even uncomfortable with many of the
>>  alternative shorthand forms such as cd when I see them in other
>>  people's scripts.
>---------
>I wouldn't waste any time worrying about that. Shorthand forms cd, bg, fld,
>and many other standard ones have been in use for over 16 years. If someone
>chose to off them, virtually all my scripts would quit running.
>
>Thanks for your thoughts, but I vote for continuation of standard shorthand
>forms.

I wasn't suggesting we get rid of the shorthand forms. (I gave up 
trying to type itemDelitimer a long time ago.)  I was just trying to 
illustrate Marian's point that alternatives can  cause communication 
problems among developers.

Cheers
Dave


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