[R] scan(...comment.char="#") breaks my code

[Steve Cassidy]

I've just discovered the recent addition of the comment.char arg to scan, a 
useful feature no doubt but the default value of # rather than "" breaks my 
code which looks for # as a delimeter in a file and provides a messy 
incompatability with earlier versions of R and with Splus.   

Is there any chance that this default could be changed to ""?
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Steve Cassidy........Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
..............<URL: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~cassidy>................
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