On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:49:47 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen
<brix@gentoo.org> wrote:
| On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:57:11PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > I did bring this up a year ago. I brought it up before the close of
| > voting too. Back then, it was claimed that the infinity was just a
| > minor detail and not part of the design itself.
| 
| Yes, I remember that - I just can't locate it in the archives.

It was on -core. But there was a nice forums post too.

Sven Vermeulen writes at http://tinyurl.com/amyy3 :
> Afaicr, the infinity sign will be kept, but I know a huge discussion
> will be held on this. It's not important in this stage of the
> development though...

And now we're told that it *was* important at that stage and it's too
late to change things? Riiiiiiight.

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