On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 08:34:30 UTC, Manu wrote:
[snip]
It upsets me when people present strong opinions about this who
literally have no horse in the race. This is only really
meaningful, and only affects you if it actually affects you...
It's clearly not important to you, or you wouldn't be basing
your opinion on *I kinda feel...*
Jonathan's argument is similar. He's worried about something
that this
thread has tried and failed to determine exactly what is.
I don't think that's fair. He has been quite specific about his
concern and the kind of situations where there would be degraded
behavior, and it clearly *is* important to him, and he certainly
has a horse in the race. But I believe you are correct that those
are cases where there's some unrelated bug that the ref parameter
restriction just happens to catch, and that's not a good enough
argument for keeping the restriction.
Meanwhile I think we have determined that the presumed
practical trouble
cases are even less that I suspected up front.
That's surprising; I didn't realize that you suspected practical
trouble cases.
