list corner case

[Bowerbird at aol.com]

john said:

>    (a)  treat as an unordered list

>    (b)  treat as an unordered list with an ordered sublist

>    (c)  treat as an unordered list followed by an ordered list


i'd come at it from the opposite angle.

suppose i wanted to do (a).   how would i do it?
suppose i wanted to do (b).   how would i do it?
suppose i wanted to do (c).   how would i do it?

if one can do all those things another way,
then i wouldn't treat this as _any_ of them.
just leave it as-is, so people get channeled
into doing each of those things "correctly".

i see no reason to "privilege" any one choice,
especially when "intuitions" are so disparate...
no matter how you slice it, it will seem "wrong",
at least to some people, and that is a negative...

it's not as if _everything_ needs to be _something_...
it's possible to take a stance that some formulations
are simply too ambiguous for unequivocal treatment.

i think, in the long run, that makes it easier for people,
because it demands that they be clear in their thought.

if they are ambiguous about what they want, do nothing!

just one opinion, for your consideration...

-bowerbird



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