Why are unified diffs only "grudgingly" accepted?

[Cees de Groot]

Thomas Wouters  <thomas at xs4all.net> said:
>> (old-style edit diffs should be banned, because they're too fragile. But
>> that's a clear technical reason).
>
>Funny, that's the only type of diff Guido refuses to accept ;) The text
>explicitly states that unified diffs are accepted -- but if you don't know
>what to create, create context diffs. That's all it says.
>
Cool. Then this discussion is not about Guido after all ;-)


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