> Two off-the-cuff comments:
>
> I'm really rusty on the interaction between the various 407E features.  I
> think it's possible that this is consistent with the actual 407.

We don't have that many people exchange programs between their real 407 and
the CMS Pipelines code ;-)

> Second, there may be breakage if you "fix" this.  There may be pipes out
> there that are using this behaviour, either intentionally or inadvertently,
> which might produce different results if this is changed.

Yes, that is a concern with anything that gets fixed. There are quite a few
cases where we can't go back and change things the way we want because too
much water went through the pipeline. We do care about compatibility.

This particular issue shows even in the book - the example with that option
just did not work. If your plumbing relies on options not doing what they are
supposed to do, then maybe your pipe will break. I tend to challenge people
to explain me what about the erroneous behaviour was so desireable.

Simply resisting change does not work. Plumbers tell me that not fixing bugs
and not adding new function for two decades is not good either ;-)

Sir Rob the Plumber

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