You're ascribing things to me that aren't present in the text. I had a pretty good idea why that's how it is. I even completely agree with not changing it now.

You're ascribing things to me that aren't present in the text. I had a pretty good idea why that's how it is. I even completely agree with not changing it now. Backwards compatibility is important, no argument there. That doesn't change that it's the sort of niggling annoyance that drives people to dislike the language.