Thoughts on versioning

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 at 14:51:06 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> There is literally no way to reproduce the abomination known as 
> an autodecoding for backwards compatibility. I tried.

in that case realistically you can't make a v2 act sane to 
strings when built on v1 either, meaning the only choice is to 
rewrite (aka copy/paste aka fork) as needed.

I'm ok with that.