On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:46:49AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > The existing syntax is just as extensible. Up the EABI revision, and > | > start adding new syntax as needed. > | > | EAPI has nothing to do with the consistency of the syntax. Getting it > | once right, is what you usually call for. I prefer clean data > | structures. > > The proposed syntax is cleaner than shoving arbitrary stuff inside > [bleh]. Any new [role:] tags will require an EABI bump anyway, so > there's no reason to stick to your proposed syntax to avoid future > backwards compatibility breaks. Expanding a bit...
Via eapi, if we wanted to throw out the syntax down the line we could. Not saying it's a great idea, but EAPI exists to provide immediate transition to incompatible changes instead of the usual "work out a semi backwards compatible way, don't use it for 6 months, then deal with the bugs". ~harring
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