[socialdemocrat]

Seems like a reasonable trade off to me. The previous behavior was just really annoying in practice.

[systems]

its an exceptional behaviour, its a code smell, good code, should try to make exceptions normal

its a very poor design they don't have variable declaration, and they have to go head over heels to provide acceptable behaviour

anyway, it is a bad thing in the language, lets not defend it (i hope)

julia still have a lot to offer, i guess it can afford one design flaw