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Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
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Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:56:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Dan Boger writes:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:08:51PM +0000, Tim Courtney wrote:
Advance users that edit the files manually already have
to understand the file format, with everything that goes with it.

Sure, understood. I still like the idea of a more common character; even
encapsulating (META) in parenthasees is more common.

sure, that works almost as well as {}.  It's the _lack_ of any
punctuation that bothered me there.

Cool.

Although I don't have that much (if any) of a say in punctuation/no
punctuation, I could go either way. I still prefer no punctuation, to keep
it consistent with the way it's been done before. BUT - can't always get
hung up on the past :-)

-Tim



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  Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
 
(...) I think we cannot ignore the backwards compatibility issue though. What we want is an explicit way to differentiate comments from meta-commands. I think defining an explicit mechanism for comments is completely backward compatible, because if (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) sure, that works almost as well as {}. It's the _lack_ of any punctuation that bothered me there. :) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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