Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 7/5/12 11:03 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/05/2012 01:28, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> On 2012-Jul-05 09:22:25 +0200, Jonathan McKeown
>> <j.mckeown at ru.ac.za> wrote:
>>> As for the idea that Linux refugees need extra help to migrate,
>>> that's the sort of thinking that led to things like:
>>>
>>> alias dir=ls
>>
>> Whilst we're on the subject, can we please also have #define BEGIN
>> { #define END } wired into gcc to help people migrating from Algol
>> and Pascal.
> 
> Um, this kind of elitist crap really isn't helpful.
> 
> If the new feature gets created, and you don't want to use it, turn it
> off. No problem.
> 
> I appreciate the people who've spoken up as to why they wouldn't want
> to use it, but I haven't seen anything yet that says "having this
> feature is a universally bad idea."
> 
> Doug
> 


As long as it can be toggled off system-wide, persistently (sysctl?), I
can't see the harm in bringing that in.