<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 7:40 AM Eric Muller <<a href="mailto:eric.muller@efele.net">eric.muller@efele.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>At the same time, the names of
structures in OpenType tables end up in code, documentation,
tools' UI, discussions on this list, our heads, etc.. Changing
them every two months is not going to help. I would prefer such
changes to occur infrequently, may be accumulating them in a
backlog in the mean time.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not just that: Peter's unilateral renaming was a disservice to the specification: he replaced the obscure-looking "SHORT", "USHORT", "LONG", "ULONG", with common words "int16", "uint16", "int32", "uint32", even though those do not match the similarly-named types in computers and languages, because the OpenType ones are always big-endian. If he had consulted others, we could have reached a universally-unambiguous and clear names.</div><div><br></div><div>b</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
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On 8/13/2020 12:12 PM, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I’d
argue that naming convention / name changes that do not
affect data structures and have no effect on future and
existing implementations can and should be considered purely
editorial in nature. They are within the editor’s
responsibilities of things to do to maintain the clarity of
the spec itself.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Vlad<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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