On 7/5/16 4:24 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> But notwithstanding your feeling that you would like your application
> to break if it makes use of this behaviour, it is a change that might
> make some people pretty unhappy - nobody can tell how many.
What is the use of the existing behavior? You get back an arbitrary
implementation dependent value. We don't even guarantee what the value
will be. If we changed it to return a different implementation
dependent value, would users get upset?
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