> please explain how much this is breaking. > I only see this as an expansion but I agree this brings yet another > way of writing.
Well it's my TeX heritage telling me that any change will break something. Since one of the main points of OpenMath is communicating expressions, making a change for cosmetic reasons that results in no existing systems being able to process the expression seems like a bad idea, even if you thought the change was an improvement. So my adjective "breaking" was probably gratuitous, as "breaking change" and "change" probably mean the same thing here. > It allows expressions which, earlier, were disallowed by the schema, > to be allowed now. In other words, making expressions that were authored previously in error suddenly aquire an unintended meaning and be no longer flagged as an error. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Om3 mailing list [email protected] http://openmath.org/mailman/listinfo/om3
