Re: a proposal regarding libraries

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Josef Svenningsson wrote:

But it will probably do us good to allow for some hackish libraries. They can always be improved upon later.

How can you improve the API later without breaking code that relies on it? In my experience the design, that is the signature of the functions, the naming scheme and the organization in modules, is often the problem and it is hard to change that later.