On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote: > > "I want to give a better error message" is not a good enough reason to change this long-standing behavior in a back-patchable bug fix. >.... and I do not agree that it is an improvement worth making in HEAD.
OK, In this case I'd rather agree.
I'm probably done trying to help with this one - it's beyond my ability and desire to contribute to meaningfully. It seems to need to be escalated if the regression has a chance of being understood and fixed. Some good candidates for helping out are copied already so I'm just hoping one or more of them chimes in. I'll repeat my suggestion to start a new thread and let this one die. The answer to $subject is no.
