Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > On 10/11/20 09:29, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> As we will see below, there are exceptions where we reject >> options that used to work. Do we want that? > > I think that, as long as we gain in consistency, we do. The special > casing of "id" is a wart of the current parser and the less it shows > that "id" is treated specially, the best. > > Deprecating or downright rejecting working combinations is always > walking a fine line, but here we're almost in https://xkcd.com/1172/ > territory.
I find it hard to disagree ;)