I don't understand anything you are writing. The effect of the Pace is negligible, yet it is awful? We need preserve the ability to differentiate the spec for entry and head, yet they are almost identical? The changes proposed are so small and people are flipping out. This is getting funny.
I will withdraw the Pace, and keep the Iron Curtain between head and entry. You will feel safe. Plus, I won't have to answer emails from you about it anymore. Everybody wins.
Robert Sayre
Graham wrote:
This Pace is awful. No one disagrees that head is very-much like an entry. But the thing is, that doesn't make it one. I don't even think you believe it is really an entry, otherwise you wouldn't have called it headentry. This Pace does nothing, literally nothing, in that afterwards we'll still have a head and a bunch of entries, we'll just be calling them by really non-sensical terminology. The conceptual argument is completely moot.
Why not adopt it anyway then? Because the real effect of the Pace is to arbitrarily remove our ability to differentiate the spec for an "entry" and a "headentry", and there's no reason to.
Graham
