"as" keyword woes

Alan G Isaac aisaac at american.edu
Thu Dec 4 15:15:22 EST 2008


Warren DeLano wrote:
> what I can't understand is the decision to break 2.6 instead of 3.0.  2.x was
> supposed to remain backwards compatible, with the thinking that 2.x
> would be maintained in parallel for quite some time.  3.x was supposed
> to be the compatibility break.


I do not understand why anyone would object
to this perfectly cogent complaint of Warren's.
Even if the deprecation warnings had not been
invisible, the complaint would be valid.

Alan Isaac



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