> >
> > This is really horrible.
> >
> > Why should a language support a practice that must be discouraged?
> >
>
> It's a bicycle-shed issue. The committee spent hours wrangling and
> agreed on a messy compromise that satisfies no-one.

Why, for what pressing reason, had this to be put in the specification?

What are the use-cases, whose solution depends significantly on this
feature?


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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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