BINDBYNAME false by default?

[Medezark]

Ok, yes, it's fairly simple to correct but WHY would anyone implement it that way.

Using the ODP and I have some parameterized commands, and I give the parameters names.  For a reason.

So, for example

CMD.COMMANDTEXT = "SELECT FOO FROM BAR WHERE BAR.FIELD1 = :PARAM1 and BAR.FIELD2 = :PARAM2"
CMD.PARAMETERS.ADD ("PARAM2", VALUE2)
CMD.PARAMETERS.ADD("PARAM1",VALUE1)

Gets processed as "SELECT FOO FROM BAR WHERE BAR.FIELD1 = VALUE2 and BAR.FIELD2 = VALUE1"

UNLESS I add CMD.BINDBYNAME = TRUE.

If I wanted Oracle to just stick the values wherever it felt like it, I would not have named my parameters!!!
Should the default for BINDBYNAME not be FALSE?!?