> In 15 years of working with Macs (as a programmer and as a semi-pro DAW/NLE user), I've never been confused once by them.
Gosh, are you saying that the common use of ADS was a common mac pattern and people very familiar with the history of macs would understand this well?
Do you really think that refutes the point that they're confusing to everyone else? While many OSs have implementations of ADS, almost no one uses them.
>Gosh, are you saying that the common use of ADS was a common mac pattern and people very familiar with the history of macs would understand this well?
It was quite common, yes, and even more extended in the past, but I'm saying something else: that noticing it and having issues with it wasn't that common. It's a leaky abstraction, but you don't often meet that leak.
Case in point TFA's issue. He has a zero-sized font file where all the data are in the resource leak. All fonts I've dealt with in OS X have been proper files, you can copy over to other FS normally.
>Do you really think that refutes the point that they're confusing to everyone else?
No, as I wrote: "It sure can be confusing (and I see how)".
But it's not that often that it has a chance to be confusing (at least in my experience -- but I've also not seen much discussion in support forums, questions from friends/colleagues with Macs etc about such as issues, whereas I've seen for many other issues).
>While many OSs have implementations of ADS, almost no one uses them.
Wouldn't that make them even MORE confusing in those OSs, the times they're finally used? As opposed to an OS that regularly uses them?
Gosh, are you saying that the common use of ADS was a common mac pattern and people very familiar with the history of macs would understand this well?
Do you really think that refutes the point that they're confusing to everyone else? While many OSs have implementations of ADS, almost no one uses them.