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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:35:03 +0100 Maurice van der Pot |
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<griffon26@g.o> wrote: |
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| On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:21:17PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:24:15 +0100 Maurice van der Pot |
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| > <griffon26@g.o> wrote: |
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| > Reasons we want to allow negatives: |
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| > * They are useful in certain situations. |
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| Can you give an example? |
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No, but klieber probably can, since he was the main proponent of not |
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disallowing negatives. |
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Having said that, "I can't think of one" is by no means equal to "there |
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are none". I can't think of any reason why anyone would ever possibly |
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want to use XML for anything, for example, but I'm sure *someone* |
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somewhere out there has a legit use for it. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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