Posted by Roger B.A. Klorese on 04/20/05 05:45

Richard Lynch wrote:

>Why in the world should we be forced to follow your narrow-minded
>so-called "standard"? :-)
>
>

Hint: smileys indicate that you're joking. If you're joking, I don't
get what's humorous -- please explain. If you're making a serious point
but trying to have the rhetorical equivalent of "no offense, but..." you
should probably know that any time someone says "no offense, but..."
they really mean to offend but get off scot-free.

>Furthermore, the & as separator pre-dates & by *years* and billions of
>lines of code could be affected by altering the default.
>So, really, Backwards Compatibility alone makes this a no-brainer default
>value of: &
>
So default behaviors should never change?! Absurd. you should be
notified that they are changed, and should have a mechanism to configure
for the previous behavior... but they have to be allowed to change as
standards do.

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