On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, John Levon wrote: [ ... ] >> The fact that it didn't cause a difference in pipe behaviour was a >> feature. > > Could you explain how this was a feature? In particular what possible use it > was to be able to specify a useless option.
"An option having no effect in context X" != "A useless option". "An option causing a surprise in context X" != "A useless option" I'll leave it at that. We're just not in agreement as to how mdb piping _should_ work. It breaks _my_ expectations in more than one place but I stated that already. I'm all with you that the resulting feature from this change (a calculated address becoming input in an mdb pipe) is a long-needed addition. Can we agree on that ? FrankH.
