On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Martin Peach wrote:
Seems to me weird characters always cause trouble somewhere along the line. Why not rename them [lt~] and [gt~]? Then there's something in gridflow I think that actually uses * in its name,
I encoded that using the hexloader's convention for the benefit of the SVN, and then the Makefile copies that to the name that has '*' in it because it can't assume that the hexloader is actually there.
If all internal classes became single external classes, as some people have wished already, then you end up with bunch of classes named like [*] and [/] that have to be named something in the filesystem, and so should their helpfiles. Furthermore, by consistency, things closely related to the [*] class should be named with a "*" in the name instead of a "mul", and things closely related to [/] should be named with a "/" in the name instead of a "div", and so GridFlow's [inv*] was part of a jMax-compat layer and the original jMax class was called exactly [inv*] because the jMax authors judged it to be so closely related to [*]. There's another way of understanding the behaviour of that class, but in that case it is so closely related to [/] instead.
I mean why not make an external with the three-character name [ctl-alt-del]?
Ctrl and Alt are not characters and don't have any character code representation.
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