Yeah, I have to admit that since writing this post yesterday I've been having qualms. In principle, the more-granular approach seems good (indeed, I'm fairly sure that the coarse-grained version would need "escapes" up to a higher level for exception cases), but I'm not at all sure what that would look like.
I keep thinking of HyperCard, which hid its complexity very well...
Yeah, I sometimes think that I am a bit handicapped, never having used HyperCard. I get the impression that there were worthwhile ideas there for me to steal.
Hmm. I think I should probably pause on this "feature" for now, let it percolate, and ponder this more-granular thought. The same notion was occurring to me yesterday, and when you and my gut agree on such things it usually suggests that I should take the notion seriously. The core question is how to make the elements available in such a way as to make them easily available when you need them, but to not even take up brain space if you don't...
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Date: 2014-06-28 03:19 pm (UTC)I keep thinking of HyperCard, which hid its complexity very well...
Yeah, I sometimes think that I am a bit handicapped, never having used HyperCard. I get the impression that there were worthwhile ideas there for me to steal.
Hmm. I think I should probably pause on this "feature" for now, let it percolate, and ponder this more-granular thought. The same notion was occurring to me yesterday, and when you and my gut agree on such things it usually suggests that I should take the notion seriously. The core question is how to make the elements available in such a way as to make them easily available when you need them, but to not even take up brain space if you don't...