Re: legal notation ... was Re: Beyond 64K

Pablo Sanchez (pablo@mew.corp.sgi.com)
Wed, 1 May 1996 13:48:44 -0600

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On May 1, 3:40pm, Stephen W. Thompson wrote:
> Subject: Re: legal notation ... was Re: Beyond 64K
>
> I, too, avoid adding a new question in the midst of
> previously-released numbering, but lately I've felt that maybe this
> goes too far. As long as the numbering is internally consistent, does
> it really matter if a question's number is changed from one release to
> another? I've come to think it doesn't.
>

It some times does... for instance, in my DB world a 605 error is a
really bad error... the same seems to happen with the FAQ... the
question's number gets a meaning attached to it: "oh yeah, that's
Q4.7 and posters start referring to it as "Q4.7"...

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