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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 23:00:34 -0400
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On May 13, 2025, at 16:24, Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> As Robert said=E2=80=94and I agree=E2=80=94renaming the existing _tz =
family would be more trouble than it=E2=80=99s worth, given the need for =
deprecations, migration paths, etc. If we were designing this today, =
suffixes like _stable or _volatile might have been more appropriate, but =
at this point, we=E2=80=99re better off staying consistent with the _tz =
family.

I get the pragmatism, and don=E2=80=99t want to over-bike-shed, but what =
a wart to live with. [I just went back and re-read Robert=E2=80=99s =
post, and didn=E2=80=99t realize he used exactly the same expression!] =
Would it really be too effortful to create _stable or _volatile =
functions and leave the _tz functions as a sort of legacy?

Or maybe there=E2=80=99s a nice backronym we could come up with for _tz.=20=


Best,

David


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