asterisk users - Nov 2006 - a extension intentionally dropped in favor of * ?

I have several diaplans that used the exten 'a' to handle the
'*' key.
They all stopped working some time in the last few releases of *

 

Was 'a' intentionally dropped as a standard extension in favor of using
'*' in the dialplan?

 

Example;

 

Exten => a,1,dosomething  used to work, now you must use exten =>
*,1,dosomething

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