On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote: And I would therefore argue in favor of deprecation. In the long run, it is better to teach people to use "group_level=exact" than to repeatedly have to explain this issue to them. I think it's a bad idea to promote behavior (using "group=true") that does not fit with user expectations (that "group=true" is simply a binary switch that still allows you to set group_level to whatever you want).
+1. Having two different parameters that affect the same behavior, but in different and incompatible ways, is just confusing. I suggest: 1. Make the URL parser ignore ‘group=‘, if ‘group_level=‘ is specified too. 2. Remove ‘group=‘ from the documentation, except perhaps as an obsolete way to specify ‘group_level=exact’. —Jens
