John

Sorry, I don't have time to face all this flailing ad hominan stuff.

The "facts" you must face are:

1) ADO is based on the FP engine.
2) SCAN is partly index optimisable in FP. DO isn't.
3) FP'ers were encouraged to move to SCAN to harness this efficiency. Now a tool based on FP is "encouraging" us to move back; not because doing so is "better" but because ADO cannot span lines, as SCAN can.
4) It is reasonable for FP'ers to wonder about this.

That is my point. The galaxy of other stuff you keep throwing up has nothing to do with it. I do not "have to provide evidence to support my stance" because I am asking questions, not making absolute statements about contentious things.

Once and for all: this isn't an argument against ADO. Nowhere do I say that SCAN is fabulous or that ADO is rubbish, as you keep trying to pretend I did say. Your repeated attempts to imply that this is my stance, is the exact definition of a "straw man" argument.

You know, every time you do this in a thread, and I mean "every time", you burn off what could be a perfectly reasonable argument. We all miss out when knowledgeable people take a look and shrug because they don't want to face this sort of thing.

JR