Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:jje0er$24mb$1 at digitalmars.com...
> This statement is from Linus Torvalds about breaking binary compatibility:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495
>
> While I don't think we need to worry so much at the moment about breaking 
> binary compatibility with new D releases, we do have a big problem with 
> breaking source code compatibility.
>
> This is why we need to have a VERY high bar for breaking changes.

Freezing things against breaking changes is all fine and good, but NOT 
before they're reached a point where they're good enough to be frozen. 
Premature freezing is how you create cruft and other such shit. Let's not go 
jumping any guns here.