On 2007-02-23, I V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:46:31 -0800, Beliavsky wrote: >> I think the C and C++ committees also take backwards >> compatibility seriously, in part because they know that >> working programmers will ignore them if they break too much >> old code. > > While that's true, C++ compiler vendors, for example, take > backwards compatibility significantly less seriously, it seems > to me.
Compiler vendors usually take care of their customers with compiler switches that enable backwards compatibility. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
