make 3.82 considered harmful
Roland McGrath
roland@hack.frob.com
Fri Jun 14 18:23:00 GMT 2013
> Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> writes:
>
> > How it happened to be happens to be wrong in a way that happens to coincide
> > roughly with the change to the behavior.
>
> Is that a question?
No.
> > But the old behavior was easy to understand while the new behavior is
> > not.
>
> The new rule is more intuitive since it doesn't depend on order.
My intuition is to expect that order is the only thing that matters.
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