"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:jje0er$24mb$1...@digitalmars.com... > This statement is from Linus Torvalds about breaking binary compatibility: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495 > > While I don't think we need to worry so much at the moment about breaking > binary compatibility with new D releases, we do have a big problem with > breaking source code compatibility. > > This is why we need to have a VERY high bar for breaking changes.
Freezing things against breaking changes is all fine and good, but NOT before they're reached a point where they're good enough to be frozen. Premature freezing is how you create cruft and other such shit. Let's not go jumping any guns here.
