The problem with this apology for the standard -- that nobody would interpret it so unreasonably -- is that many programmers (like me) wrote programs assuming what seemed like reasonable bounds on how far compiler writers would go in their language lawyering, which a decade or two later got flouted, making our old code start mysteriously breaking, in a hard-to-figure way, only in the latest versions of the compilers, which at the time were notorious for compiler bugs. If you trust the same compiler writers to respect today&#x27;s common idea of reasonable engineering tradeoffs, well, I hope it works out better for you.