I think it has proven out pretty well in practice that probably want both in the surface language. I know minimalists on the TF side of the debate have tried to make the case that you don&#39;t even need FDs in the surface syntax, but there are lots of places where it having a class with multiple directional constraints makes the code much, much more sane.<div>
<div><br></div><div>I would be loathe to sacrifice either of them.</div><div><br></div><div>-Edward<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>uestion yet?  I thought MPTC was not considered usable without one of those, and neither is yet considered standard (with some good reason in the case of FDs).</div>

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