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Postings from August 1999
>> >If I remember the discussion on p5p correctly, this feature was added >> >per Tim's request. Later Tim agreed that this was not used as he >> >wanted, and there was a better alternative to this ugly hack. >> >> >I Cc to p5p to clarify things. >> >> Please assure us that you have no intention of breaking existing code by >> withdrawing a feature that's been in there for many years. Imagine the >> ramifications. They'd take you out and shoot you. >It is not a feature, it is a misfeature. Being undocumented makes >it a bug - if we decide so. Fixing bugs is a normal programming >practice - that they *will* shoot you if you are not bug-for-bug >compatible makes no difference. Well, I have rather bad news for you. It's not going to be undocumented. It's something that's been there for years, and people rely upon it. You can't define the problem of backwards compatibility out of existence just by not documenting it. I repeat: you'd be shot. But no matter, I'm not going to remove its documentation. That would be dishonest and wrong. --tom