- From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:38:41 +0200
- To: Michael Rys <mrys@microsoft.com>
- CC: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Michael Rys wrote: > And why can't you write the function yourself? I said I could; see the original post. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2003May/0171.html > I am not convinced yet that such a function has a general enough value. OK. > Also note that the more functions the WG is defining, the longer it will > take until implementations will have fully conformant implementations. > > I would much rather have an incremental development of the function > library and continue to add functions over time. This means that you > need to postpone functions that have less general value for a later > version. OK. > And your function below for me falls into the postponing category for > the following reasons: > > 1. I still don't fully understand the semantics > 2. The semantics that I infer from your description (shallow-equal) is > in my opinion both cheap enough to write yourself no doubt (I didn't state the contrary to the latter) > and not general enough > a function to be included. I think it is general enough; if a definition can be found that most agree upon. Tobi -- http://www.pinkjuice.com/
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