On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:06:46PM +0200, Bernd Schoeller wrote:
I was not participating in the last conference, so I am perhaps not the best to raise the question "why" if it was already discussed there.
participating in the conference is not a requirement to participate in discussion. i don't remember any discussion or voices against static from the conference, so probably until now the question of 'why' has actually never been raised.
and even if it has, then we should be able to provide the answer...
It is probably more a cleanup of the language, and less a matter of complicating the language.
that's the direction i would like to see it go.
In the end, I should just attend the next Pike conference :-)
that indeed you should :-)
greetings, martin.