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Author r.david.murray
Recipients Christian.S..Perone, jackdied, r.david.murray, xuanji
Date 2010-12-14.12:51:24
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Yes, for backward compatibility reasons it is better to make the change that fixes the thing that doesn't work and leave the rest alone.  Probably the change wouldn't break *much* existing user code, but why break anything when there doesn't seem to be any particular advantage to doing so?
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