On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

: Can we not find one good way to do this kind of thing instead of a
: million bad hacks that inevitably seem to lead people down a path to
: something not quite as sweet smelling as they hoped they would find?

Because some people like building one way, and others like to build other
ways.  And since we've already supported these methods, adding another
discongruous method (rather than extending the *existing* ones) would make
it even more confusing.

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