Dec. 31, 2002
12:10 p.m.
Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>:
Eric S. Raymond writes:
That depends on whether the surgery is at the data level or the representation level. The former covers my use case.
At the abstract data level, the order is fair game as well.
My use case calls that assummption into some question. There are attribute groups within sections where I think the meaning is order-dependent. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>