[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The reasoning is that a lot of software doesn't care if it's wrong for
> edge cases, it's really hard to come up with something that's correct
> with respect to all of those edge cases (absurdly difficult, if you need
> to stay in the straightjacket of string / bytes types, as well as
> provide a useful library interface - which is why we're having this
> discussion). But, it should be _possible_ to write software that's
> correct in the face of those edge cases.
I just wanted to highlight this as something to keep in mind during this
discussion: we want to keep the easy things easy and make the difficult
things possible.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia
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