Re: Font selection -- a solution

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 
> LRU?
> acrnoyms confuse the crap out of me and it would have thought you meant
> Least Recently Used execpt that does not make sense in this context.

Sure does, and that is correct.  Though it's kind of an inverted sense:  We
pick entries to throw away by least recently used.

> I am used to seeing MRU for "most recently used", and i just thought i
> would point this out and hope that there is a comment in the code to make
> it clear to others who are easily confused.

We shall surely comment.

> What is am trying to say is that faced by an unknown acronym i think
> people will geuss the right answer for MRU more often than the will LRU.

LRU is a well known cache replacement scheme, and this menu is in essence a
cache.  A cache of no fixed limit, though.

> I try not to be pedantic and i know it is a trivial detail, i am not
> nitpicking but i was seriously confused by this whole thread because of
> it and i hope you will consider what would give the most clear and most
> maintainable code. (Being in touch with my inner idiot is what helps me
> to test software and evaluate usuability.)

Yay inner idiot! :)

-Lars

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