From: Brian G. <bri...@me...> - 2012-12-04 22:44:29
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On Dec 4, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Joe English wrote: > > Last week, Simon Geard wrote: >> >> Since there has been no activity on this TIP for a month I'd like to >> arrange a CVF. Since I'm not a TCT member I need a TCT member to sponsor >> it so I'd greatly appreciate it if someone would please volunteer. I'd >> also like it to be marked for 8.6.1 so that (if approved) it gets out to >> users in months rather than years! > > > The TIP as of Revision 1.7 is still problematic. > > It proposes a new -height option that, when present, changes or > disables entirely the meaning of other options, violating orthogonality. > > On top of that, "-height" has magic behavior in that it cannot > be read and cannot be set to zero. (This magic behavior was > apparently proposed in order to address problems related to > introspection. Alas, it only exacerbates those problems.) The TIP was updated to allow -height 0 and introspection, but still seems odd to me. Maybe in order "to support the creation of circular arc segments in a natural way" this should be done as a new method, say "circle"? -Brian |