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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sat, 16 Jan 1993 06:00:16 MST
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 05:59:45 MST
From: "Ralph Griswold" <ralph>
Message-Id: <199301161259.AA02671@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
To: goer@midway.uchicago.EDU, icon-group
Subject: endtab/detab
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
I'll be interested in seeing what response there is to your suggestion
for removing entab() and detab() from Icon.
However, once you have a large user community and widely distributed
documentation, it's not feasible to remove something, even if it's
little used. Worse, it's not feasible to redesign something that
was done badly. That's one of the reasons language design is so
hard; once you've done it, implemented it, documented it, and
released it, you're stuck with it.
Ralph E. Griswold ralph@cs.arizona.edu
Department of Computer Science uunet!arizona!ralph
The University of Arizona 602-621-6609 (voice)
Tucson, AZ 85721 602-621-9618 (fax)