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Posted to user@velocity.apache.org by Dave Glowacki <dg...@ssec.wisc.edu> on 2000/09/01 22:53:02 UTC
Re: User Design Issues, principle, and the whole philosophy (who is
your customer, anyway?
Jon Stevens wrote:
> At some level, having Velocity at a high level position (ie: in the ASF)
> allows us to resist that type of feature crap (like adding #while and #begin
> and #end).
How are #begin and #end "features"? They don't add anything to
the feature set, they're just mnemonic devices.
Re: User Design Issues, principle, and the whole philosophy (who
is your customer, anyway?
Posted by Jon Stevens <jo...@latchkey.com>.
on 9/1/2000 1:53 PM, "Dave Glowacki" <dg...@ssec.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Jon Stevens wrote:
>> At some level, having Velocity at a high level position (ie: in the ASF)
>> allows us to resist that type of feature crap (like adding #while and #begin
>> and #end).
>
> How are #begin and #end "features"? They don't add anything to
> the feature set, they're just mnemonic devices.
Picky picky picky. I write a 2 page email and you analyze it down to a minor
point of 3 lines which totally ignores the entire point of the email.
Amazing.
-jon
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