Proposal: hands off the base! :)

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 04:13:24 EST 2008


Hi Bulat,

On Jan 17, 2008 6:18 PM, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> step 1: create library NewArray with modules Data.NewArray.* copied
> one-to-one from Data.Array.* and publish it as version 1

Having words like "new" for the purpose of versioning is quite
confusing because a library which is new at some point will eventually
become old and then the name is misleading. Versioning doesn't belong
in module/function names IMHO.

-- Johan


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