Follow-up Comment #7, bug #66054 (group groff):

[comment #4 comment #4:]
> I won't say this critique is invalid, but it's not something I
> have a hankering to overturn for _groff_ 1.24.

Yeah, I'm not even sure how it would be overturned in a way that maintains
compatibility, so this was more a gripe at the original design than a request
for action.

> I think the semantics can be defended if one understands what an
> "equivalence class" is.  Doesn't *everyone* take a university
> course in discrete mathematics?  ;-)

Perhaps the info manual can summarize the salient points of this course for
those who slept through it. ;-)

Or at least make more explicit what ".hcode a a" means in practical terms.


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