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.
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