[gerggerg]

Considering we won't see this changed since the author has already closed the issue and expressed his satisfaction with the current rules this article should at least serve as a reminder for errors not to repeat with the next language someone designs.

It's open source. Why not fork it and get some like minded coders to change it with you?

[scribu]

There already is a fork that changes this (Coco), already mentioned in another comment: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3380423