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[Walter Bright]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> I think Walter is right, the code changes introduced by new features 
> (not bugs) are very rarely backwards-incompatible (even more rarely that 
> they should be, IMO, but that's another story), so I don't see as valid 
> this idea that you have to refactor your code with each new major 
> release. If you don't have time to use, or don't want to use the new 
> features of a release, simply don't, you won't be any worse because of 
> that.

That's right, the changes may obsolete some existing library 
implementations, but it shouldn't *break* them.