Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

[Jason Hellenthal]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:19:31PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> 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.

Haha sysctl... thats going quite a bit too far into the system for this.

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