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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 06:20:15PM +0000, ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 17:52, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > > I asked Yves privately about this, and he wonders if it is worth trying to > > not break constructs like '/foo/lt +2' > > I don't think it's worth it. We should just pick the modifier letters > that make sense and not bend over backwards to be backwards compatible > with a *very* small amount of code out there. I'd rather we design a solution that doesn't break backward compatibility, no matter how much code we _think_ it might break. If that turns out to be completely untenable, then we can talk about how we hurt our users.Thread Previous | Thread Next