Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:04:49 -0500, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>  
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:51:12PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:40:37 -0500, H. S. Teoh
>> <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:26:48PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>> >>(dons flame war proof suit)
>> >[...]
>> >
>> >I don't see what's there to flamewar about.
>>
>> You're new...
>>
>> :)
> [...]
>
> Not nearly new enough to not be partially responsible for that huge
> gigantic thread about exceptions. :-) (Which I had no trouble following,
> btw, even though it's clear that a lot of people were totally lost after
> the first 100 posts or so. Mutt is just *that* cool. OTOH, when the
> thread nesting depth exceeded even mutt's ability to display the thread
> lines (because it was overflowing my terminal width), the thread started
> to fizzle out. I'm guessing that's when the rest of us mutt users bailed
> out. :-P)
>

No, what I meant is that @property is a sore subject that invariable  
starts a time-consuming never-winning flame war any time someone mentions  
how it should or shouldn't be mandatory.

-Steve