On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote:
I read Jack as saying "No" to the second question,
You're a good reader :)
and I respect that view. It's clear and consistent. But I'm
not totally
ruling out a wretched British compromise until I hear some more views.
I'm not against it per se. After all, compromise is an art which I hold in
high esteem (being exceptionally bad at it). I'd just like to point out
that this decision would (philopsophically) mark a point when Hansl and
Gretl started diverging from one another. This may not be a bad thing in
itself, Hansl being more oriented to power users and Gretl to casual
users. The only thing, in time we may have several "favour/favor",
"centre/center" etc. situations. Are we ok with this?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti