[Versa] Issue 100A proposal, extension functions

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 10:59 -0400, Chimezie Ogbuji wrote:

> > Should we have processor produce a warning?
> 
> I'm not sure, I guess it depends on if the processor thinks using
> functions this way has an ill-effect in some way or just that the user
> should be aware of it.  I can imagine using them much more often than
> the forward traversal operator equivalents, so would I expect a
> warning raised everytime I do? I'm thinking maybe it should be left up
> to the implementation to decide.

Again, let's watch out for language that's too restrictive of
implementations.

We have the RFC terminology.  Use SHOULD or SHOULD NOT for cases when
you start thinking of processor warnings.


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