As I was reading through, the back of my mind was saying “Nice heuristics but now you’re adding uncertainty. The behavior of DEL could vary dramatically and use

As I was reading through, the back of my mind was saying “Nice heuristics but now you’re adding uncertainty. The behavior of DEL could vary dramatically and users would not know why.” I was relieved that antirez recognized this as a semantic change and gave it a new name. Very thoughtful. Perhaps there is something to be learned from GC algorithms in this case?