From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Panicz Maciej Godek <godek.maciek@gmail.com>
Cc: "guile-user@gnu.org" <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Core Guile bindings
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:20:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfbcCTRLYd2x=P94058+f-TbWfqnReujJAHdbVvO+TNz4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMFYt2Z8C=5csDcy4pyCPyHQfoxJ_jAmFd_s3j6PZ9WbT9V3yw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Panicz Maciej Godek
<godek.maciek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2016-10-12 20:21 GMT+02:00 Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.edu>:
>>
>>
>> My understanding is that these symbols have been part of the default
>> environment for so long that a lot of code would break if they were
>> removed, so they will be staying for the foreseeable future.
>>
>
> On the other hand, the fix would usually be trivial (just one use-modules
> clause), and besides I don't think that Guile has ever had a tradition of
> worrying too much about backwards compatibility.
The Guile maintainers care very much about backwards compatibility,
from what I've seen over the last few years.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-12 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-12 18:18 Core Guile bindings Panicz Maciej Godek
2016-10-12 18:21 ` Thompson, David
2016-10-12 19:18 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2016-10-12 19:20 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2016-10-13 13:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-13 18:19 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-10-13 18:32 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2016-10-14 8:31 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2016-10-14 15:53 ` Robin Templeton
2017-02-26 18:30 ` Andy Wingo
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