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Re: making the "rXXXX" convention official

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2003-11-11 16:53:50 CET

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:07, Files wrote:
> I agree on the user-friendliness part. Just wondering if we could have used -
> instead maybe? Just a thought in passing.
>
> - is only a character class meta-character.

There is sometimes a balance to be struck between human-readability and
machine-readability, but here the appropriate call is clear: one should
never ever choose punctuation in a human-readable output format based on
what characters are special in a regexp.

> Doesn't matter. I'm just musing out loud. Don't mind me.

This is going to come across as unfriendly, but: please cut down on the
"musing out loud" on the dev list. It's a very high-traffic list even
without your contributions, which have been extremely prolific. When
the development community is this active, we all need to exercise
restraint and restrict ourselves to carefully thought-out commentary.

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