On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:35:03 +0100 Maurice van der Pot wrote: | On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:21:17PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:24:15 +0100 Maurice van der Pot | > wrote: | > | > Reasons we want to allow negatives: | > * They are useful in certain situations. | | Can you give an example? No, but klieber probably can, since he was the main proponent of not disallowing negatives. Having said that, "I can't think of one" is by no means equal to "there are none". I can't think of any reason why anyone would ever possibly want to use XML for anything, for example, but I'm sure *someone* somewhere out there has a legit use for it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm