On 22 May 2008, at 08:10, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
[...]
Optional features are dangerous and impede interoperability.
Everyone who ever thinks about chipping in on the design of
a spec should read [section 5 of RFC 3339][1]. [...]
I love how it says:
[...] A format which includes rarely used options is
likely to cause interoperability problems [...] The
format defined below includes only one rarely used
option: fractions of a second. [...]
Which reminds me of when svn started to report fractions of seconds in
their ‘svn log --xml’ output, causing a few log visualizers to break :)
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