Subj : Trailing comma
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Jun 30 2018 18:42:38

Hello Kees,

On Monday June 30 2014 17:23, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> I think MAkeNl should not forcefully add a trailing comma. It
 MvdV>> should also not remove it when it is present in the submitted
 MvdV>> segment. It should just pass it "as is" in the case that field
 MvdV>> seven is the last field.

 KE>  In order to to get makenl_ng accepted by all ZC's, it had to behave
 KE> as the original makenl.

It /has/ been accpeted by all ZCs. So thathurdle has been taken. And I have 
already seen one ZC expressing a preference for a change.

 KE> The above behaviour is in complience with this aim.

If dropping 100% drop-in compatibility with the old MakelNl is a show stopper, 
we can do as we have done before: make it an option that has the old behaviour 
as the default.

We have however already crossed the line. What is in use now by the ZC's is not 
how the old MakeNl behaved. What is in in use now allows "-Unpublished-" 
without the Pvt or Hold keyword. Plus a few other things.

Strict drop-in compatibilty was desirable in the transition phase form the old 
to the new MakelNl. But now that at least all ZC's use the new NakeNl, as 
probably a large fraction of the RCs and NCs, we can drop that.


Cheers, Michiel

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