On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:36:09PM -0600, thelema wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Tavin Cole wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:18:24PM -0600, thelema wrote:
> >
> > When are we going to stop perpetuating the myth that representing DBRs
> > in the URI using decimal, while representing numbers in fieldset-based
> > metadata attached to freenet keys using hex, suddenly makes developing
> > client software so much more difficult..
> >
> I'm not claiming it's any more difficult in the technical sense. I'm
> just saying that if we use base 10 in one spot, base 16 in another, base
> 12 and 8 in a few more, and then represent some things in base 1, people
> are going to be confused about how to implement things, even if it's
> spelled out in the spec. There's no good reason to represent this
> number any differently than any of the other numbers in the spec.
I think you're exaggerating a bit there ;)
There isn't just one big spec that covers everything under the sun.
The URIs and the fieldset metadata are two different and independently
specified things. Users don't see the fieldset metadata, but they do
see the URIs and may sometimes have to manipulate them manually --
which is the good reason for using decimal instead of hex that you
claim doesn't exist.
I don't believe that using decimal in the URI could really confuse
anybody. It's just another elegance/consistency myth.
--
:: tavin cole (tcole at espnow.com) ::
if there's been a way to build it
there'll be a way to destroy it
things are not all that out of control
- stereolab
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