On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:59:55AM +0200, cube@cubidou.net wrote:
> 
> Making NetBSD accept other syntaxes would not increase portability of the
> application.  It would just be a hack to make it magically work on NetBSD.

Actually, as you note, it's worse than that; it actually *encourages*
programmers to rely on nonstandard behaviour.  In this case, in fact,
it's precisely the kind they should not be encouraged to rely upon: the
kind that is highly likely to very widely from system to system.

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud