<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 23:04, Ewan Higgs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ewan_higgs@yahoo.co.uk">ewan_higgs@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<snip> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> It should either return two values as entering "> 1 1" would or it should yield an<br>
error.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It should definitely not return two values. That would make no sense at all since there's no separating character. According to the spec it's an invalid value, i.e. a reader error.</div>
<div>But why not expand on the standard? I don't see anything wrong with adding features and extra functionality - as long as strict standard-complying code will run the same way.</div></div>