[Coding_Cat]

They could compromise by adding a few more lines of code and having '+' resolve to ' ' if and only if the file can't be found with '+', or vice versa.

Immidiatly mark this behaviour as deprecated and switch over to proper '+' == '+' behaviour later.

edit: LiquidFire's idea is better.

[viraptor]

That would require synchronisation, potentially between multiple servers. Doing this efficiently, without race conditions could be very tricky at their size.

[bpicolo]

It also makes lookups ambiguous if you have both. :)