On 8/1/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > comex wrote: > >AMEND RULE 2152 BY CHANGING ALL WORDS IN ALL CAPS TO THEIR NORMAL ENGLISH > >CAPITALIZATION, THEN AMEND EVERY OTHER RULE BY CHANGING THOSE WORDS IN THE > >SAME WAY. > > No thanks. The capitalised spelling provides a useful distinction > between the precisely-defined terms and the ordinary English words. > The use of all caps follows RFC 2119. If it is the capitals, rather > than the principle of distinction, that you object to, please propose > some other means of distinguishing the terms. > > -zefram >
RFC 2119 is intended to govern technical specifications for software and communications protocols. Unless there's some intent to turn Agora into a Code Nomic I really don't see the point in trying to follow it so specifically. Specifically, defining "deprecated" in Rule 2152 just seems silly. There's no reason I can think of to allow a discouraged or "deprecated" action in a nomic at all, and I think including it shows a misunderstanding of the very important reasons for allowing such things in software. -- Geoffrey Spear http://www.geoffreyspear.com/
