All right, all right! Interim decision regarding qualified Object methods

[Walter Bright]

On 7/12/2012 12:59 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> So, I think that it's probably a solid way to go, and it does appear to solve
> the const issues that we've been having quite nicely, but it also appears to
> break a number of things which have worked for some time, and we're going to
> have to figure out how we're going to deal with that, even if it's only
> providing a good deprecation path.

A main motivation for going this route is to avoid breaking existing code.