Just checking: the consensus is that BCI_GetWave_Block_UI is required when
BCI_Protocol is present? I’ll agree that defaults are not a great idea for a
specification unless they truly represent something dominant.
Mike
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Subject: [ibis-macro] Re: Draft4 BIRD 147.2
I'm fine with the emerging consensus.
Bob
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:28 PM, <radek_biernacki@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If the default of 1000 is not necessarily a preferred value then we will
indeed be better staying away from it and keeping things simpler.
Radek
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Subject: [ibis-macro] Re: Draft4 BIRD 147.2
I like simplicity here, too. I don't think the minor convenience benefit of
having a default value for BCI_GetWave_Block_UI is enough to justify the
unique specification language and unique parser behavior that are required
to make that one parameter "optional".
If BCI_GetWave_Block_UI simply required when BCI_Protocol exists, just like
the other 3 parameters that already follow this rule, then things are
simpler.
That being said, I have no strenuous objection to the current version.
Thanks,
Curtis
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Bob Miller <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I generally like simplicity. Especially if the time spent understanding the
complexity offsets any hassle saved by the exceptions the complexity
affords.
But in this case it isn't really my battle. If its your front yard that is
being overrun by free-range cows you might want a more precise (and complex)
fenceline.
Regards,
Bob
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Bob Ross <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All,
Per the discussion 10/4/16, I have revised the draft so that
BCI_GetWave_Block_UI
is illegal if BCI_Protocol is missing.
Curtis makes a point separately that we could just have a rule - All BCI_*
parameters
or none and no defaults for a cleaner and simpler rule.
I could make the change, if people prefer this.
Bob
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