wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (02/27/91)
> >I suspect that if fstrings were proposed, the minimalists would scream > >bloody murder. > and rightfully so. fstrings has absolutely no place in the controlled > word set. as ancillary baggage - fine. add a refrigerator if you want, > but don't try to weigh down the core with personal gadgets. Not in my wildest dreams would I have proposed to put fstrings in the CORE wordset, and I doubt that anyone else would have proposed it either. Extended STRINGS wordset, maybe, but not CORE. Would the minimalists have been right to scream bloody murder under those conditions? Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM