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  1. The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't b…
  2. I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
  3. Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
  4. I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
  5. For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
  6. Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support. :-)
  7. People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
  8. : - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...

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