Re: Why is the default value for arg_separator.output '&'?

"Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:45:14 -0700

Richard Lynch wrote:

Why in the world should we be forced to follow your narrow-minded

so-called "standard"?  :-)

Hint: smileys indicate that you're joking.  If you're joking, I don't 
get what's humorous -- please explain.  If you're making a serious point 
but trying to have the rhetorical equivalent of "no offense, but..." you 
should probably know that any time someone says "no offense, but..." 
they really mean to offend but get off scot-free.

Furthermore, the & as separator pre-dates &amp; by *years* and billions of
lines of code could be affected by altering the default.
So, really, Backwards Compatibility alone makes this a no-brainer default
value of:  &

So default behaviors should never change?!  Absurd.  you should be 
notified that they are changed, and should have a mechanism to configure 
for the previous behavior... but they have to be allowed to change as 
standards do.

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