- From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:13:33 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote: >> >> Who said you have to argue *against* anything? Make a positive case >> for YOUR proposal, independent of any other proposals that may or may >> not be on the table, by demonstrating what code written to it looks >> like. > > The positive case is "I came up with the idea and designed it". Perhaps it'll make more sense if I phrase it this way: It is difficult for me to evaluate whether your design will be any good in practice, because there are no examples of how the API is *used*. For the same reason it is difficult for me to say whether any of the counterproposals would be better. If you wrote some nontrivial examples (more than just a function or two -- full-fledged demo programs of some sort) it would be much easier to evaluate the quality of the API. (And I think the people making counterproposals should do the same using their preferred APIs.) zw
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