Hi Ned, On 01/16/2013 03:40 AM, Ned Freed wrote: >> Actually I think you make a couple of great points that ought be >> mentioned in the draft about implementability. (No chance you'd >> have time to craft a paragraph? If not, I'll try pinch text from >> above:-) Now that you point it out like that, I'm irritated at >> myself for not having included it already! (It rings bells for me.) > > OK, I think the place for a new paragraph is just before the last > paragraph of section 2. How about something along the lines of: > > A complete and correct specification is not in and of itself a guarantee of > high quality implementations. What may seem like minor details can > increase implementation difficulty substantially, leading to > implementations > that are fragile, contain unnecessary restrictions, or do not scale well. > Implementation experience has the potential to catch these problems before > the specification is finalized and becomes difficult to change. > > You might also want to change the final paragraph of the section a bit in > light of the addition; I'll leave that to you to work out.
Did that, working copy at [1]. Lemme know if there're any changes that are needed. I think that's a really good addition, thanks. S. [1] http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/misc/draft-farrell-ft-04.txt > > Hope this helps. > > Ned > >
