On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 6:19 PM Larry Dalton via lazarus <
lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> So we lose some backwards portability?
>

IIRC it has been called "forward compatibility" as opposed to "backward
compatibility".
Backward compatibility means your old code works in new versions of
FPC/LCL/Lazarus.
The other direction is not guaranteed. New code cannot always be used in
old versions.

Juha
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