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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:59:16PM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> > Personally I think CVS*1.21 is a bit too ugly to be worth it.
> 
> Ugly, but for that reason also more legible.  

Actually my concern is that visually, it's _less_ legible -- you really want
something that acts a bit like whitespace surrounding the numbers, and both
`-' and `:' serve that purpose -- but `*' is a much more dominant character.

-Miles
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