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Re: unexpected result of stringification.

From:
abigail
Date:
March 18, 2001 06:54
Subject:
Re: unexpected result of stringification.
Message ID:
20010318145523.32533.qmail@foad.org
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:59:24AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> >
> >Is this a bug or not?
> 
> It cannot be - changing either is bound to break something.
> 
> >Is there a way to fix this?
> 
> Not without breaking scripts which rely on the behaviour.


I've a bit of a problem with that reasoning. That would mean you can
never, ever fix a bug, because there's bound to break something.



Abigail

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