Heya,
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 04:54, ÅtÄpÃn NÄmec <stepnem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But given that it's only used as {0,2} at the two places right now
> (disregarding occurences of "0{40}" in the documentation), I agree it
> might be better to get rid of it, although I don't feel strongly about
> it. Any other opinions?
Let's get rid of it for now, we can always resurrect it later if we
have a need for it.
> I thought about this already when preparing the recent unification
> series, and came to the conclusion "no, there shouldn't". :-) As the
> examples you give show, the current usage is inconsistent, but given
> that it brings no semantic ambiguity, I don't think it is a problem. You
> could find more similar cosmetic inconsistencies and I don't think it
> makes much sense to mandate any rules for such things. (But again, I
> don't feel _too_ strongly about this either, so if more people think
> it's worth it, I can prepare a patch that unifies them and mention the
> preference in CodingGuidelines.)
Perhaps we can set a standard to do it, but just leave the existing
cases as is (to prevent unneeded churn)? That way we'll eventually
converge on something.
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
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