Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <xxxxxx@knm.org.pl> writes:

> Thomas Bushnell BSG <xxxxxx@becket.net> writes:
>
>> Wrong.  There may actually be users who care about this which would
>> like something other than IEEE.  It does happen, you know.
>
> There is no other model competing for being the default. This means
> that it's requesting other models which should be explicit.

To the contrary, I think requesting *any* model should be explicit.

Can you help me out here by explaining *why* it is so painful to be
explicit?