On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:34:43 -0400, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:

>In addition to the business case, there is a compelling design case
>that can be made briefly.
>
>If something can be made bigger a symmetric facility that makes it
>smaller must also be provided
>
>More generally, Garden-of-Eden states, those that once left cannot be
>returned to, are always ugly and problematic.  This dictum is so
>elementary that lapses from it reflect inexperience and design
>incompetence.
>

So sayeth John.  :-)     In a perfect world perhaps...    How long have you
been in this business?    I can think of dozens of examples across this platform
and other platforms where things can be enlarged by not made smaller... or at 
least not without jumping though a few hoops.    I wouldn't say it is from
"inexperience and design incompetence".   (Boy, you sure insulted a lot
of good developers with that statement)

But you can keep dreaming. 

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