[Zope-dev] Re: [Collector] Strange reject policy

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Fri May 7 05:03:50 EDT 2004


Ken Manheimer wrote:

> All the actions are verbs, "won't fix" is not a verb. 

Do we have to be this pedantic?

"Wont' fix" says what it does, it's close enough to verb usage for me:

"I won't fix that"

> verb the more clearly indicates the result is "won't fix"? (While the
> distinction between "refuse" and "reject" is subtle, "reject"  distinctly
> implies to me a defect in the request, while refuse does not.) 

Yeah, but refuse doesn't have any logical associate with the "won't fix" state 
for me, so it's a very unintuitive name...

cheers,

Chris

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