On 2018-02-04 08:22:23 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 12:48:45AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > In which case, it should refuse to accept '4/2/2018' at all, right? > > It can't, that would break working scripts. This is the heart of the > problem: we know the parser is horrible, confusing, and irregular, but any > attempt to change it will break lots of stuff that depends on the current > brokenness.
It is not rare that the behavior of utilities change and break scripts. So, why not here, in particular for a good reason? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
