On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Duy, > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Matthieu Moy >> <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I think the syntax should be design to allow arbitrary boolean >> >>> expression later if needed. >> >> >> >> I would be against that. We may extend it more in future, but it >> >> should be under control, not full boolean expressions. >> > >> > Why? >> > >> > I'm not saying we absolutely need it, but if we allow several kinds of >> > conditions (gitdir-is:... and others in the future), then it's natural >> > to allow combining them, and arbitrary boolean expression is both simple >> > and powerful (operators and/or/not and parenthesis and you have >> > everything you'll ever need). >> >> For starter, we don't want another debate "python vs ruby vs lua vs >> ..." as the scripting language :) (for the record I vote Scheme! maybe >> with infix syntax) > > FWIW I do not think that Matthieu implied that this has to be implemented. > But it does not make sense to slam the door shut prematurely, either. > > Meaning: the more doors you can keep open with the new syntax, the better. It works for me either way. So I'm going to assume we want "[include-if "gitdir-is:..."]", unless people think it needs more discussion (then just write something, anything, so I can put it back in my backlog) -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html