Re: preliminary GLISS discussions

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:54 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".
> 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 :)

Most languages have the design flaw of not being completely delimited at
every level.  Including most human languages.

-- 
David Kastrup