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Re: Issue: WITH-OPEN-STRING-APPEND-STYLE (Version 2)
- To: edsel!jonl@labrea.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: Re: Issue: WITH-OPEN-STRING-APPEND-STYLE (Version 2)
- From: masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- Date: 23 May 88 13:04 PDT
- Cc: cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: Jon L White <edsel!jonl@labrea.Stanford.EDU>'s message of Tue, 29 Mar 88 21:32:59 PST
Two nits:
Aesthetics:
This is a bit silly, but I'm wondering if you are reconstructing QUUX's quote
accurately. The quote I can find (from format-colon-uparrow-scope), is
``Absolutely none. We're talking about FORMAT here.'' -- Guy L. Steele Jr. In
any case, the proposal is to change WITH-OPEN-STRING, not FORMAT. I'd be happier
if it said that this was a minor improvement to the aesthetics of the language
because it made it more consistent.
Proposal format:
The preferred format is to use "Cost to Users" and "Cost to Implementors" rather
than "Adoption Cost" and "Implementation Cost" because people were confused by
them.
Thanks,
Larry