From: Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...> - 2009-05-11 00:46:10
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Frankly, such a revision has extremely low priority among the things that really do need to be done.<br> <br> Bruce Sherwood<br> <br> Guy K. Kloss wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:200...@ma..." type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 11 May 2009 09:19:10 Bruce Sherwood wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> It's likely that when David Scherer created Visual in 2000 these conventions were not well established. For internal consistency we can't really change now. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> You've got a point there, but ... even Python is reinventing itself with the 3.0 version to get rid of old annoyances. So there could be a "parallel API" for an intermediate time, to keep things working, and later the old API could be marked as deprecated to "wash them out". If it works with Python (also to some lesser extent in older version changes), why shouldn't it work with Visual? Guy </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html> |