[Bug 8041] Should say "This algorithm will return either a number, or a number and a denominator character, or two numbers, or nothing", for consistency with other algorithms

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8041


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-10-25 06:48:56 ---
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I added this, because I think it's useful to implementors to know
ahead of time what the return value is, but the algorithms vary a lot in their
style, and I don't think consistency across all of them is beneficial enough to
justify going out of our way to make them consistent, given the danger of doing
that. So consistency isn't really a convincing argument, IMHO.


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Received on Sunday, 25 October 2009 06:48:58 UTC