On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:21:17PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:24:15 +0100 Maurice van der Pot > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reasons we want to allow negatives: > * They are useful in certain situations.
Can you give an example? > * They could reasonably be expected to work -- negatives work in other > places. I don't doubt that it will work. > * Not supporting negatives simply because they cause complications is > basically admitting that we suck. Only if we are the reason this particular implementation of negatives is chosen. You won't catch me saying either one of these is an optimal solution. In this case I think we're trying to select the lesser evil. Regards, Maurice. -- Maurice van der Pot Gentoo Linux Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org Creator of BiteMe! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kfk4ever.com
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