On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Anselm Lingnau wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor) writes: > > > please developers DON'T WRITE A LINE OF CODE UNTIL > > A VOTE HAS BEEN TAKEN AND THE STANDARD BECOMES OFFICIAL. > > Actually I think this is the wrong way round. Nothing should go in the > standard unless it has been proved that it is actually implementable > with reasonable effort.
I was going to say something along these lines as well. I would amend the above to say to the developers, write as much code as you can stomach, report any problems to the standards list, but please don't *publish* the software (except perhaps as beta) until the standard becomes official. John To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html