From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 27 20:44:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F9E37B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F41B43E3B for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:43:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7S3hw1v005030; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:43:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7S3hwSg005029; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:43:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:43:58 -0700 From: David Schultz To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Moore, Robert" , "'Mitsuru IWASAKI'" , yb@sainte-barbe.org, acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Grover, Andrew" Subject: Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815 Message-ID: <20020828034357.GA4994@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , "Moore, Robert" , 'Mitsuru IWASAKI' , yb@sainte-barbe.org, acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Grover, Andrew" References: <3D6BF4E6.9B441A6B@mindspring.com> <20020828024604.GA4653@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3D6C415D.7483B754@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D6C415D.7483B754@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Terry Lambert : > > Sometimes. But see http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/DWIM.html > > I understand, but having a different failure is no worse than > having a failure, I think. In either case, it doesn't work, > even if it doesn't work in an entirely different way. 'delete *' is a *whole lot* worse than `delete: File not found'. (You get the latter either way, actually. :-) There's always a danger in having too much magic. It's okay when the magic does something right part of the time and fizzles out the rest of the time. But when it does something terribly wrong, you have to question the tradeoff. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message