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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Dave Crocker wrote:
> 	The only problem is that I have always viewed the ocurrences of
> those rules without parens as being bugs.  Pure and simple.  Great that
> folks knew how to read it but bugs nonetheless.

While this may be a reasonable view, it is not an engineering 
justification for us to cause confusion by changing the rules that are
current practice.  If we can't demonstrate ambiguity or other technical
problems with current practice, then we should document and accept it,
however wrong we may feel it is.