>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Robinson
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> Increasingly, I begin to wonder if this should be seen as
Richard> a fork. I've been arguing the toss over a lot of these
Richard> new proposals, on the grounds that they might as well be
Richard> "done right" if at all, but I'm also beginning to wonder
Richard> whether I'd actually be prepared to update to software
Richard> that conforms to it, if/when anybody changes the code to
Richard> do so.
I agree with this. One thing that seems to me missing from this
effort is a codification of exactly where this standard is
incompatible with previous versions of the standard. That is, not
where ABC which works with one or more current applications will fail
with a program designed to the new standard, but where something
written with a sincere desire to adhere to the standard will have to
be modified to adhere to the new standard. The '*' for right
justification seems like an example of this, and midline fields with a
continuation character before them may be another.
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