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. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
