
15 Apr
2004
15 Apr
'04
4:52 p.m.
So in summary, you weren't confused about how the library works; you just were unhappy that you had no justification for how it works. That lends no credence to your claim that "the counter-intuitiveness of the semantics will lead to subtle bugs in people's code who misunderstand or forget bind's behavior in this area."
Alright.
P.S. if you want to understand the justification, see http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2002/n1385.htm
Thanks, John