On 3/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Henning Thielemann</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:lemming@henning-thielemann.de">lemming@henning-thielemann.de</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Josef Svenningsson wrote:<br><br>&gt; But it will probably do us good to allow for some hackish libraries.<br>&gt; They can always be improved upon later.<br><br>How can you improve the API later without breaking code that relies on it?
</blockquote><div><br>You can't. You have to brake the code. Which is not that big a deal. The old version of the library doesn't disappear off the face of the earth just because there is a new version. I agree that backwards compatibility is a good thing but it is not as important as some people make it. Constructive destruction is needed sometimes if we want to make progress.
<br></div><br>/Josef<br></div>