In <ofa6db1740.0ef7c5b4-on85257c6a.004925c8-85257c6a.0049b...@us.ibm.com>, on 01/24/2014 at 08:25 AM, Peter Relson <rel...@us.ibm.com> said:
>I don't disagree with your preference, but you are talking about >changing thousands or millions of lines of code, and likely creating >significant incompatibilities. No, he is not talking about changing the behavior of existing code; he is talking about changing the behavior of new code. >The reality is that the choices lie between >- changing nothing and >- implementing what many customers (whether they voice their >opinions on IBM-Main or not) have asked us for, namely to give them >the "rope" and leave it to them to avoid doing something that >"hurts". That's a false dichotomy. The actual choice lies among - Changing nothing - Changing the behavior of the existing interface - Adding a new interface while retaining the old one. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN