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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

>> I think we'll see a whole lot of barfage from people who have tried
>> one way, and then switched to the other way, and not bothered to clean
>> stuff up...
>
> That's right.  They should clean up, then.
>
> Maybe just warn instead of barf?

That sounds like a reasonable compromise.  :-)

If somebody were to write a patch that did that, it would be nice. 

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