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* Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com> [2015-06-05T09:00:03] > The "Bring me sandwiches" case seems like a "makes life more > interesting" version of "Bring me every kind". You'll never know > which kinds you won't get until you realize you didn't get them. > > The only people who will spin the Wheel of Sandwiches are either > looking for excitement or don't really understand the Wheel of > Sandwiches. I hesitate to stretch the metaphor even further... The difference is "bring me whatever you think best" versus "whatever you can make." The Chinese place on 9th St. that I like won't even give me tripe unless I specifically ask for it, even if I order a sampler. Anybody who says "use warnings;" is *already* spinning the Wheel of Sandwiches, knowing that we might add or remove warnings as we see fit, and as we have done over time. Right now, we can't offer a warning at all unless we want to put it into everybody's sampler. We can't have speciality items. But really, the point of this metaphor was not about `use` but about `no`. When you say `no sandwiches;`, no matter what kind of complex order you had placed, they all stop coming. -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next