Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.

[Clément Lassieur]

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi ng0,
>
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 14:50:26 +0000
> ng0 <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> What I take from the discussion is, all is good to go except for
>> subsystems. I'm okay with reviewing subsystems as an individual patch
>> later on. For me this works. Push the 3 patches, and send the subsystems
>> one later as a new discussion-bug.
>
> The 3 were pushed to master.
>
> Patch 4 not yet. So let's discuss.
>
> I have no preference for pairs or lists - it's just that the documentation 
> should say what it actually expects - because the user has to write the form 
> differently:
>
>   Pair: '(a . b)
>
>   List: '(a b)
>
> Those are not compatible with each other.
>
> (I think as the patch is written now it expects lists)
>
> And I'm against calling pairs "two-element tuple"s. It reminds me of these 
> math joke equations which write the value 2 in a really complicated way (but 
> correctly) :)
>
> And lists are definitely not two-element tuples. That would be seriously 
> confusing.
>
> What do you think?

Hi Danny,

I forgot to thank you for this explanation of pairs and lists.  I took
it into account here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2017-03/msg00610.html.

Clément