tldr: carry on. :]
On 2/4/23, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com
