On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote:

>  Hi Robert,
>
>
>
> My main problem with devleoping new features on trunk first and then
> porting by adding backwards cruft is, that you first don’t care with
> backwards and then suddenly have to think about it. This may change the API
> on trunk again, to get nearer to backwards or maybe because a backwards
> layer is not possible. E.g. at the beginning of AttributeSource-TokenStream
> API, when Michael and me discussed about the sophisticated® backwards layer,
> we also did some changes to the new TokenStream API, to support backwards
> better.
>

I think with this proposal things like sophisticated(R) backwards layers
would generally become a thing of the past...

-- 
Robert Muir
rcm...@gmail.com

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