[lojban-beginners] Single numbers as years

["Betsemes" <betsemes@hotmail.com>]

In chapter 5 of Lojban for Beginners, this comment is written:
"More recently there has been a proposal to make single numbers refer by
default to year rather than day; the controversy on this has not settled
down yet."

This refers to the construct expressed as "li <number>" which in case of
dates refers to the day of month. I guess that this proposal could have some
time of having been proposed so I want to know what have been decided about
this if anything. (If my opinion counts and it maybe doesn't; I don't like
those irregularities in programming languages, much worse is the case in
human languages. I prefer to use cmene for years).