2007/2/28, Ralph Johnson johnson@cs.uiuc.edu:
On 2/28/07, Damien Cassou damien.cassou@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...