On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 07:00:25 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 06:25:10 UTC, Manu wrote:
Can I suggest that ALL new modules should be added to exp.
rather than
std.?
Java tried this. As a result, they are now stuck with "javax"
because they realized breaking backwards compatibility wasn't
worth the benefit of "graduating" packages from "javax" to
"java".
Actually they also have another issue.
Java supported since the begging something similar to a System
package for dirty tricks, officially it was a Sun only API.
http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/sun/misc/Unsafe.html
So actually all Java implementations provide a compatible API,
because many do use it.
Younger languages seem not to have any issue breaking backwards
compatibility for experimental code.
--
Paulo
