From owner-incits-v1@incits-v1.org Thu Jun 21 12:09:58 2007 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:09:17 -0700 (PDT) From: jon.bosak@sun.com Subject: INCITS-V1: Examples-Durusau-10 Sender: owner-incits-v1@incits-v1.org To: incits-v1@incits-v1.org Reply-to: incits-v1@incits-v1.org X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 X-Authentication-warning: jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com: bosak set sender to jon.bosak@sun.com using -f (For the text of the comment in question, see http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/v1mail/200705/2007May23-170237.eml) The comment Durusau-10 states: DIS 29500 has 5,756 examples of the use of the markup defined therein. Although a precise estimate of the space consumed by these examples is not easy to obtain [...], it is clear that the examples impair the readability of the proposal by greatly increasing its length. I'm not sure that I agree with the general thrust of this; personally, I can never have enough examples, and I've never seen a standard that provided too many of them. Maybe if I had actually slogged through all 5,756 of them (!) I might feel differently, but I think that the readability issue has more to do with the extraordinary length of the DIS itself than with the examples. Jon