On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) <q...@lindenlab.com>wrote:
> > > > I don't actually have an opinion about the right answer, but I will note > that if this is going to be used for things like banning people, then we > can't ever change it to be something accurate later. The pattern we see is: > > * We build something that has a numeric limit > * Someone builds something that pushes right to the limit > * We change something, and the thing that used to work no longer works > * People scream that we broke content > > So if we create a call that returns approximate results now, it *always* > has to return the same results. > > At some point (sooner better than later) SL has to start obsoleting old ways of doing things. To my way of thinking, it is better to obsolete a little bit overy so often rather than keep backwad compatibility until you have to break a lot at once.
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