<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Alexander Berntsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexander@plaimi.net" target="_blank">alexander@plaimi.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">> If we do this, over time we'll save another 60+ packages the<br>
> trouble of doing the same thing.<br>
</div>This looks pragmatic now, but I, for one, think that in the future we<br>
would be appreciative of our decision to stick to conventions instead<br>
of giving in to the slippery slope of myopic pragmatism.<br></blockquote></div><br>Descriptivism vs. prescriptivism. Somehow, prescriptivism never seems to work out in the long run; people do what they do. If they're added as mif etc., I expect those 60+ later packages will break out as 2 using the official ones and 58+ using homegrown ifM etc. still because their authors didn't notice the "weird names" ones.<br>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div>
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