It’s simply about having a decent mental model of other people.
If you look at the example of a user asking for the last three characters of file names, it’s not hard to understand what the user wants to do.
In general a lot of social interaction works in the way that people don’t outright state what they want. That makes life difficult for autists but most people can cope.
Having the last three character means that you get the type of the file. You can decide whether a file is a mp3 file or whether it isn’t. At least that’s true with standard file endings. However there’s no gurantee that the ending is 3 characters long.
It’s simply about having a decent mental model of other people. If you look at the example of a user asking for the last three characters of file names, it’s not hard to understand what the user wants to do.
In general a lot of social interaction works in the way that people don’t outright state what they want. That makes life difficult for autists but most people can cope.
Maybe this is a deficiency specific to me. I don’t know what the user wants in the example you give for instance. Out of curiosity, what is it?
A file is named:
Having the last three character means that you get the type of the file. You can decide whether a file is a mp3 file or whether it isn’t. At least that’s true with standard file endings. However there’s no gurantee that the ending is 3 characters long.