R. David Murray added the comment: If we were making this decision de novo, we might decide it that way. However, the current behavior has been in place for a long time, so backward compatibility concerns raise the bar high enough that the costs of the change outweigh any benefits, even if we got general agreement that there was a benefit :)
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