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Author Ronan.Lamy
Recipients Ronan.Lamy, r.david.murray
Date 2017-11-08.17:57:39
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The problem is the complexity of the actual behaviour of these methods. 

It is impossible to get it right without looking at the source (at least, it was for me), and I doubt any ordinary user can correctly make use of the v='' behaviour, or predict what the return value will be in all cases.
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