It's hacky (although officially hacky :) ) in regards that it parses the dropStmt on each object to get the objects name. This is necessary because of an oversight in the initial design of the binary format.
If there's something missing in the format, I'd be inclined to add it. We've never promised to make dumps made by version X readable (or usable) by version X-1. We *do* the opposite, however, so you will probably still need to parse dump statements from old dump files. Unless we can back-patch...
So, rather than carry the hack forward, doing it right for future versions would be my vote.
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