On 17 August 2015 at 13:15, Kenneth Lerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The "problem" with defaulting them to the enabled state is that the meaning
> of previously valid programs change. (Of course it is unlikely that someone
> happened to use a variable with an odd name like that -- some might say
> pathological.) We generally like changes to be backwards compatible. Having
> the default as disabled preserves backwards compatibility.

I see the point, but it also seems wrong to have to "turn on" any
feature that is to be considered "normal"
And I would be prepared to bet several pounds that nobody has ever
used a named parameter in that format by mistake.

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atp
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