Re: [Sedate] A syntax proposal: floating and future times

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sun, 07 November 2021 23:11 UTC

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On 2021-11-07, at 04:16, Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmailteam.com> wrote:
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> namespace 'tz’ 

Just a terminology thing:  In your proposal, “tz” is not a namespace but an extension name.  It is a nice example why we usually don’t need namespaces.

(“tz-foo” and “tz-bar” could be considered to open a “tz” namespace.  But this could be simply done by reserving extension name prefixes for a specific purpose…)

Grüße, Carsten