Huh. I've now read the maybe-original article on this subject from 1994-- http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n317.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/

Huh. I've now read the maybe-original article on this subject from 1994-- http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n317.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n317.pdf --and have also re-read this conversation thread, and yeah: I agree.