RFC: What should ?foo do?
Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
I haven't done it, but I suspect we could introduce special behaviour
for ??foo very easily. We could even have a whole hierarchy:
?foo, ??foo, ???foo, ????foo, ...
Heh, that's rather nice, actually. In words, that could read ?foo: tell me about foo! ??foo: what can you tell me about foo? ???foo: what can you tell me about things like foo? ????foo: I don't know what I'm looking for but it might be something related foo?
I quite like this. It seems very intuitive to me -- just match the number of question marks to the level of my frustration. Pat
You do have to be careful about messing with ?, though. I think many people, including me, would pretty quickly go nuts if ?par suddenly didn't work the way we're used to.