<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:18 PM, C. Scott Ananian <<a href="mailto:cscott@laptop.org">cscott@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If we're going to a 'dotted decimal' scheme, we<br>
should use '.'. <br>
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</div> Is 1.1 "newer" or "older" than 1.11?)</blockquote><div><br> This is exactly the reason I think that 1-1 ... 1-11 is clearer (you're right, colon is unworkable because it cannot go in NTFS file names). From an educational standpoint, 1.10 is teaching kids the wrong ideas about the decimal system.<br>
<br>I do not think that hyphens are impractical. In most cases people will get it right the first time by following examples. Those who don't will quickly learn from installation warnings. <br><br>I think anything from 1-3 levels should be allowed, and that 3 == 3-0 == 3-0-0. Leading zeroes should cause warnings - that will mostly keep things from looking like dates (even in 2010, bugfix 10 should be rare).<br>
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