stability

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

> "Robert Fraser" <fraserofthenight at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:fps551$1q6a$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> True about the spec. However, this is a _breaking_ change (that is, code
>> that compiled frine with older versions has a slight chance of acting
>> differently or breaking when this change is introduced).
> 
> Actually it isn't, it's an _un_breaking change ;)  Code that used to not
> work now does.  So it's not like there's any existing code out there to
> break.

Actually, extern (System) was introduced because users had come to rely on a
bug that was later fixed ( versioned blocks with "extern(Windows):" in
them). So more like fix and break, then change to unbreak again.

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