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Right, I was also confused by the blame on backward compatibility. You can keep things backward compatible without necessarily making it on by default. There is
by ehsankia 5y ago
Right, I was also confused by the blame on backward compatibility. You can keep things backward compatible without necessarily making it on by default. There is no reason why `formatMsgNoLookups` should the default. If it is indeed an obscure and hacky feature for backward compatibility, just make it opt-in. People who really care about it will enable it, most people won't have to carry that baggage and we wouldn't be in a situation like this.
- iratewizard 5y agoHindsight is always 20-20.
- Thorrez 5y ago>for a feature we all dislike yet needed to keep due to backward compatibility concerns. If they really dislike the feature that much, they likely dislike the code and want to completely delete it. I'm not sure if making it opt-in would make them as happy as fully deleting it, so they are less motivated to make it opt-in than they would be to fully delete it.
- ehsankia 5y agoThey could also "fully" delete it by putting it in a separate opt-in package.