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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:29:30PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
> 
> >One more thing for spellwriters to watch out for and know about, when we
> >can solve the problem generally.  Other than that, a regex would be
> >adequate.  For QA purposes, the less things gurus need to know, the
> >better, I think.
> 
> I don't get what you mean here. If it can be solved without adding 
> features, that's good, but if it can't, what does it have to do with 
> anyone's ability to remember anything? We're talking about a problem 
> that is hardly a domain of novice gurus anyway.

If I understand you correctly, you wanted to have people put a regex for 
every library that has a potential to break downstream binaries.

If they don't, how will it not become an issue in the future?

Seth

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