John,
You may decide that you are more interested than the research side
of things than the community, that is your call.
There's no research at stake here, it's a software engineering issue,
and as I said I'm happy to compromise on it.
Using features from a relatively new standard, especially one that has
added so much and has so much uncertainty around it, is never a good
idea from the software engineering perspective.
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Derek M. Jones Software analysis
tel: +44 (0)1252 520667 blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com