Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>> Isn't this an argument for delimiting the argument list?
>>>
>>> It is. The disadvantage is that it breaks all existing files.
>>
>> I think i remember one of the developers saying "we should also care
>> for future users, and that's [hopefully] a bigger group than current
>> users".
>
> Yes, I know. This was in a time that the future user base was much
> larger than the current one.
>
>> I don't mean that we should screw our current users - i mean that we
>> shouldn't get around design flaws that we'll be still cursing in 20
>> years from now :)

FWIW, we broke almost all files in a major way with the 1.8 => 2.0
transition, where we moved to postfix event notation, moving from

 [a()b]

to

  a[( b])

after that we have tried to limit the amount of syntax breakage we
would do. The quote you mention is certainly from before that time.


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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen