You can probably make a small function to do it, but then it might take more than you imagine to do it robustly... then there are 1000 other "small" features li

You can probably make a small function to do it, but then it might take more than you imagine to do it robustly... then there are 1000 other "small" features like this, if you accept them all you wouldn't have a small code base any-more. They are just pretty brutal about what is and what isn't worth a line of code.