[Swift-devel] iterate behaviour round II

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 09:23 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> I propose that we do everything possible to ensure that the semantics
> of iterate does not change from 0.92.1, to avoid breaking code. NCAR
> and the DOE ParVis project, in particular, has a very large Swift
> script that they are testing for production use, and we really dont
> want that to break.
> 
> e should not allow 0.93 to break current user code -- if at all possible.

On one hand, I agree with you.

On the other hand, I do not think that backwards compatibility, in the
long run, is a good justification for keeping something that is really
poorly done.