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hv
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August 10, 2010 08:01
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Re: qr stringification: why are xism always present? I'm worried about backward compatibility
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201008101450.o7AEoVIa029305@zen.crypt.org
Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:
:* hv@crypt.org <hv@crypt.org> [2010-08-09 12:10]:
:> I do not believe the "what if we change the default" argument
:> has any relevance - it's not something we can ever do, because
:> it would change the meaning of every regexp ever written for
:> which that particular flag had not explicitly been specified.
:> Ben's argument that "right now the default is changing" is
:> incorrect
:
:That was my argument, not Ben's [...]

Oops, sorry to Ben and to you for the misattribution.

Hugo

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