Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> writes: >> On Dec 20, 2020, at 02:26, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote: >> >>> Thoughts? Opinions? Likes? Dislikes? Something? >> >> Not much. Strong opinion. Not at all. Yes. And nothing else to add. > > Brief, concise, and clear. Thank you. > > Cultural issues aside, such mechanism completely bypass the need for any > protocol changes, while opening the door to infinite extensibility. Lack of extensibility is an intentional feature. The only way we have to enforce that, other than social pressure around the spec, is to make sure that most attempts to extend the protocol will not be backwards-compatible. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net | | A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, | | even though we do not love it. -- Dogen |
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