I agree that this method is much better, and for some reason reminds me of the tooling vs programming languages discussion I was in the other day. I guess it's

I agree that this method is much better, and for some reason reminds me of the tooling vs programming languages discussion I was in the other day. I guess it's because that is an example of ad-hoc (which typically misses a lot of edge conditions) tooling created to make up for language (or in this case tooling) inadequacies.