2007/2/28, Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu>:
> On 2/28/07, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, do we choose to conform to ansi or to keep compatibility ?
>
> This is always a hard question.
>
> Try changing it and see what breaks.  If nothing breaks then it is
> easy to choose to confirm.  If things break then at least we will have
> a better idea of how hard it will be to change it.

I think some important classes depend on that behavior: parsers numbers...

-- 
Damien Cassou