> Calm down.  It clearly wasn't 50% of the use cases given that it's just
> now come up.  :)

It was part of the whole damn point of implementing the protocol. We
wanted three things: binary keys, proper quiet commands, and CAS on
everything. The rest is exactly the fucking same in ASCII. I reserve the
right to be annoyed. So I guess that's 33.3% of the point...

It's also how we advertise and document the damn thing.

> I'm not absolutely sure, but I do remember something about removing it
> and discussing it with Dustin at some point.  I doubt if either of us
> remember the conversation exactly.  Maybe Dustin will pop up and call me
> a liar.  I doubt that though.
>
> I'd surely take a patch/issue to add a configuration flag to ignore this
> check, but there's not one currently.
>
> In my personal opinion, I think we should allow binary keys.  It is
> useful.

I hope someone does send in a patch.

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