plans for 0.0.6 release

Martin Pool mbp at sourcefrog.net
Mon Jun 6 09:43:32 BST 2005


On  4 Jun 2005, David Allouche <david at allouche.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 14:11 +0200, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> > My take on this, since everyone else has said so much about it.
> > 
> > : is good because it's used in svn and cvs so people will know it. It
> > also represents ranges in python if I don't remember wrong.
> 
> Actually, it's called a "slice" in python, and it would be just
> confusing to make that analogy, since A[10:12] means [A[10], A[11]] in
> Python. It's a "range" open on the right.
> 
> I have not reread all the posts arguing about this questio, but my
> impression is that the current opinion poll looks like:
> 
> A:B  nobody
> A-B  Rusty
> A..B everyone else
> ???  Martin

I' like to add another to the list:

  A,B

Comma is reasonably well-established in this form in English or
mathematics and is unlikely to be used in tags or other operators that
might identify revisions.

-- 
Martin




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