On 2/1/23, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote: > the best we can do is minimizing the breakage when designing the new syntax
as a small nit [followup is not needed as i do not want to distract from the big boys talking about quantum dst on pluto for timestamps with [axial precession change :[]*, or follow up, as i have given up on the topic of tz for timestamps :]]: it might be that i was not making a point for which it is entirely true that what you and everybody else is proposing, i.e. extending existing ts syntax for tz, is the best we can do, in principle. :] what you said is true if you stick, for tz-using tses, with extending /existing/ ts syntax, as opposed to countenancing, for those tses, an extensible syntax that is also usable for ts-unrelated features and subfeatures so as to reduce proliferation of new, heterogenous, syntax as it will arise in future and has arisen for many years [i prefer less syntax], and other stuff like reusable infrastructure for semantics and parsing and display etc. and optional ability for users to extend syntax themselves readily without it being heterogenous but instead merely cl-style kw, and also if you don't take potential issues with compatibility with piles of regexps in 3rd party and personal code, including non-emacs, into account [not saying unreasonable]. etc. never fear: i have given up on all of that completely. at least for tz. your syntax looks great and everybody seems delighted so i have no business butting in and cannot follow up for unrelated reasons in any case. so just a nit. this paragraph might be unreadable and in that case you can just ignore it. [*] i have read that global warming relates to earth axis precession change due to contemporary mass loss primarily in Greenland. for all i know, also the origins of org coincidentally being due to an astrophysicist, this could affect tses.
