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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 1:37 AM, demerphq wrote: > I personally find this absurd. In one case we are arguing that making a regexp construct that can infinite loop die cannot be backported because it introduces a new fatal exception. There is some suggestion that making it generate a different, existing error message, "saves the backport". I find this absurd too. Why should a less useful message be ok, but a more informative one not be? You are omitting an important part of my objection: It introduces a new *compile time *exception that would affect programs not affected by the existing *runtime* exception. This isn't swapping in a better error message. This is making more programs die, including ones that currently run without error. -- rjbsThread Next