On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Claude Pache <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 10 juil. 2013 à 19:05, David Bruant <[email protected]> a écrit : >> Who needs this particular consistency anyway? > > IMO, when designing an API, the right question is not: Why would I be > consistent in that particular case?, but: Why would I be inconsistent in that > particular case? You didn't give a good reason for breaking consistency.
+1. Anyone who's had to suffer through PHP knows the pain of APIs that didn't care about being consistent. There are sometimes good reasons to not be consistent, but there's always a strong mental-tax reason for maintaining it. ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
