Should the StyleById patch be applied before 2.6? Please cast
your votes here.
I vote for "no" because
1. It will even further delay delay the 2.6 release.
2. It will destabilise the code because of the delicate nature of
the style to window propagation.
3. It does not introduce a data type identifying a style, just
passes lists of arguments to the style functions.
4. It unnecessarily exports knowledge of style related design
choices to sub functions that do not need to know about them.
5. Because id-specific styles are kept in the same list as the
normal styles, it will cause memory consumption by the style
list to explode under certain situations. Clean rules for a
new style preference order are needed first.
6. It introduces inacceptably complicated if-conditions and code
duplication.
7. We will regret the ad-hoc syntax very soon:
- It is not flexible (mixing different kinds of style patterns
is difficult).
- The syntax does not help with state-specific styles.
- The syntax does not help with regexp style name matching.
- It may further complicate abstracting the style parsing
code to allow all style names in other contexts (e.g.
conditions).
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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