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Re: (* reorder ...) comments
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At 12:05 PM 8/27/97 -0700, Christopher Allen wrote:
>I personally prefer
>non-positional, but SPKI is going to be difficult to fully validate and
>test implementations. With non-positional forms, it could become a
>factorial problem to create test suites and validate code sufficiently to
>be confident that there was not an error in the implementation. It will be
>hard enough to test as it stands, so taking this out will solve many
>validation problems.
This is a big point that I hadn't addressed. Thanks for pointing this out.
That makes up my mind in favor of positional parameters (perhaps with
named optional params at the end -- but then we want to reduce the number
of options, and testing is yet another reason to do that).
- Carl
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