Hi! > >> I'm still convinced that this will confuse our users and to me it would > >> be more logical if this denotes the number of times the pattern should > >> be repeated, with e.g. negative numbers denoting infinite. > > > > Sounds reasonable. Let's change this semantics as you propose. > > > >> In particular I expect to have to explain why my driver expects that you > >> write 0 in the file named "repeat" to make it repeat and 1 to make it > >> not repeat. > > Hm, so there are some cases we need to make clear. > 1) If negative numbers present infinite, so what's the meaning of number 0? > 2) What we should show for users if repeat number is negative, just > show negative numbers or one string "infinite"? I'd say just -1 is infinite, anything else is error. And yes, reading it should just display -1. Thanks, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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