- From: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:17:05 +0100
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: www-i18n-comments@w3.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
> > > Specifications of APIs SHOULD prefer strings over characters as
> > > arguments and return types.
> > >
> > > would satisfy me.
> >
> > What about
> >
> > Specifications of APIs SHOULD use strings rather than characters
as
> > arguments and return types.
> >
> > I'm affraid that otherwise, we get into discussions of what exactly
> > 'prefer' means :-).
>
> Well, use it unless you know you don't "need" to... I guess I
> could live
> with the text but I think requiring a preference rather than usage is
> better. I don't think people would argue about using "prefer" here as
> the text cannot be much clearer without getting more specific; all you
> want is that API designers do not use chars by accident of false
> assumptions...
It is reasonable to say "This plant prefers sunlight" but neither APIs
nor specifications can 'prefer' anything. Preferring can, IMO, only be
done by living organisms.
Misha
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