Re: Why ignoring unknown mandatory constraints is not stupid

On 19/11/2013 5:59 AM, Jim Barnett wrote:
> We've done enough thinking about mandatory constraints that I don't see any reason not to include them.  Furthermore, if we leave them out, what does our syntax look like?  Do we pass a constraints structure containing only the 'optional' item?  That will look strange.  Developers will expect to simply pass a list of constraints.  But if we let them do that, their apps will break when we introduce mandatory constraints.

A list of constraints is fine. No one says you have to use the same 
function name in version 2.0 if you need to introduce mandatory 
constraints (which I still argue you will never need).

Gili

Received on Tuesday, 19 November 2013 20:21:53 UTC