Re: [bpfk] dag-cll, next steps

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 10:23:16PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> 
> > And so will all the ones after it, no, since we'll renumber
> > them? Or are you seriously suggesting that we *never* update any
> > of the examples, that if we delete 5.1.3 we leave 5.1.2 and
> > 5.1.4 with the same numbers they had before, even we end up with
> > a section with 5.1.2, 5.1.2-2, 5.1.5, and 5.1.8 ? If that's what
> > you're suggesting, wouldn't *named* examples be infinitely
> > better?
> 
> Quite seriously, 

That's grotesque.  If I saw such a thing in a printed book, I'd send
it back and assume from then on that the authors were a bunch of
illiterate morons.

You understand that we *are* talking about printed book source, yes?

> and yes, names would have been better, but in effect the numbers
> are names.  

No, the numbers denote their place *in an ordered sequence*.  If you
want un-ordered names, we need to make them names, not sequence
numbers.  And I'm fine with doing that.  Ending up with the "I'm a
drunken retarded six year old" numerical sequence, not so much.

To everybody else: my apologies for the bike-shed painting.  :P

-Robin

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