[Fontconfig] On the order of test and edit elements in a match

Raimund Steger rs at mytum.de
Tue Jan 29 16:17:28 PST 2013


Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 13-01-24 09:46 PM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
>>
>> just wonder how useful marking "edit" as zero-or-more state is? it doesn't
>> take any effects. we can simply ignore it. so shouldn't it be:
>
> I prefer "*" to "+".  If I have a match rule and I comment out the only edit
> element in it, I prefer that it remains valid according to the XML.  There's
> just no reason to not accept it.
>
Also true. Like when a C compiler wouldn't accept an empty function body 
anymore...

Raimund

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