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[Nick Sabalausky]

"Yigal Chripun" <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> IMO, this whole thread is ridiculous since you're arguing about
> something that amounts to just personal style.

I think it's been a very interesting discussion.

Yes, there is a lot that comes down to preference in the end, and yes, we 
have come up with some such things in this thread. But we can't just go 
around assuming that all opposing viewpoints are always equally valid, 
because a lot of times they just simply aren't.  Sometimes a clear "best 
practice" does emerge. Not by unanimous vote though, but by merit of the 
argument itself. For instance, everyone could agree 2+2=5, but that doesn't 
make it so, and by the same token, one rouge diehard "2+2=5" person doesn't 
turn "2+2=4" from a fact into an opinion or a preference.

And on the things that do turn out to be matters of preference, it's still 
interesting (my opinion) and potentially helpful/productive (which I submit 
as fact, but open for debate, of course) to see the pros and cons of each 
actually laid out for all to see.