Re: [Groff] RE: Small bug in groff 1.19.2 footnote number contro

[M Bianchi]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:50:28PM +0200, Gunnar Ritter wrote:
> M Bianchi <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 01:52:04AM +0200, Gunnar Ritter wrote:
> > >   :
> > > All variants of the original -mm which I have seen so far
> > > have been very similar. It is likely that they all use the
> > > :p register in the same way.
> >
> >     One definition of backward compatibility is "All Bugs Are Preserved".
> 
> Err - but where is the bug here?

No, not that I am aware of.  I was attempting a joke/turism.
 
> > So I ask the question of the group:
> >
> >     Do we want to implement "backward compatibility" of undocumented
> >     things like the number register  :p  in the groff package?
> >
> > I vote no.
> 
> I personally do not care. I will always keep "my" variant
> of -mm ...
>       :
>       Gunnar

I count that as an "abstain" vote.

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