------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org 2005-08-08 13:20 ------- It serves its users by providing a reliable translator for the language defined by the standard. Think about the portability implications of compilers that willy-nilly implement some parts of the standard but not all, based on what they perceive as their users' best interest. If you go beyond toy projects, then best user interest will place a formally and well-defined, portable language over a language that always does what the user intuitively wants it to do. W.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15910
