[clean-list] order of parameters of "fwrites"

lethevert acatofearlgrey at ybb.ne.jp
Fri Oct 14 02:08:04 MEST 2005


Hello.

> It is (next to) impossible to determine an optimal order of arguments 
> for functions.

 > A similar problem exists with the priority of infix operators: it is
 > (next to) impossible to determine priorities such that you never have to
 > write parenthesis.

Of cource, it's (not impossible but) a hard task to determine them.
But it's not useless work to argue an optimal order and priority
because it is sometimes a main factor of usability of programing language.


 > In general there must be very strong arguments to change such things in
 > the library since it can stop existing programs to work correctly.

Probably so.
But in <<< case, it causes little effect on existing programs to change
<<< priority because <<< is a binary operator with uniqueness type
and the context of using <<< are predictable.


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lethevert
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