On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:

What I'm not in favor of is having it try STRICT and if that fails,
try LOOSE.  It feels to me like if the user wants STRICT, they should
try it. And if it fails, they should be notified of that (through the
function failing) and then they can choose how to react.

Ok, I just wanted to save the programmer the retry step.


I think I'd be ok with it if there is an explicit flag for that -- the "I'd prefer strict but don't care if I end up with loose" flag.

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Jeff Squyres
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