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Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net> writes:

> I claim that any
> platform which provides both but with differing senses is somewhat
> broken so I cannot see the precedence mattering much.

I agree with that, and that is the reason why we shouldn't change
the order all of a sudden.  If it shouldn't matter, then there is
only downside of a possiblity to break such an insane set-up that
has been happily working by accident, without helping anybody if we
change it, no?