EA1 - DBMS_OUTPUT prints to Script Output window

Question

All,
I saw another post about the window switching from the DBMS Output window to the script window after a script is executed (I don't like that either), but this is different.
My DBMS Output is being output to the Script Output window.
Example:
begin
   dbms_output.put_line('Hello World');
end;Yields (in Script Output):
anonymous block completed
Hello WorldDan
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dmcghan

Answer 1

This is definitely a change from 1.2.1.31.12, where even running as a script the DBMS Output was displayed on the DBMS Output tab.
However, while this makes DBMS Output inconsistent (where it appears depends on how you run it) it does make scripts that produce DBMS Output and other output consistent (all output goes to script output).
For example, if you were writing scripts like the following (assuming the PL/SQL generates DBMS Output), the output will now be consistent:
select count('x') records from my_interface;
begin
process_my_interface;
end;
select count('x') records from my_interface;
With the way the DBMS Output and Script Output tabs are set up now, either DBMS Output or Script Output has to be inconsistent when in comes to displaying DBMS Output. I think that the way 1.5 EA1 works is inconsistent in a more manageable way (largely because reconstructing a single stream of output from more complex cases of the example above would be difficult).