On 11/7/05, Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 7/11/05 3:22 PM, "Luke Arno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> I sure hope we can find some other way of traversing recent changes which
> >> isn't leaky.
> >>
> >
> > leaky (permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases ) [1]
>
> in which direction?
>
> consider using a bucket with a hole in it to bail out your boat. That bucket
> would be called "leaky", even though the nature of the leak is that water
> stays in the bottom of your boat, unmoved.
>
> using a method to move stuff from there to here which has an unwanted effect
> of leaving some behind ... that's leaky.
>

Again, key word: 'unwanted'.

Words like leaky and broken imply intentions.

None of you arguments have convinced me that most
cases need insignificant updates before edit time.

You keep showing me that I don't get insignificant
updates at sync and claiming that I don't understand.
That is *not* the issue. The issue is that I have not
been shown a case that I believe is a real problem.

- Luke

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