Re: should CSS, HTML, etc. documents bear version information? (XMLVersioning-41?)

Elliotte Harold scripsit:

> That's brittle and badly written software. Admittedly there's a lot of 
> that out there. :-(
> 
> Better software bends rather than breaks. There's some of that out there 
> too.

"Always avoid absolute statements; they invariably lead to bad reasoning."

Seriously, there are plenty of applications where it's better to break,
loudly and early, rather than bend.  Long ago and far away, programmers
experimented with error-correcting compilers (see CORC, DWIM), but on
the whole we expect compilers to be conservative in what they accept,
and rightly so.

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