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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: does anyone care about this?
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Date: 7 Aug 89 16:54:01 GMT
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> Given the difficulty involved in guaranteeing backward compatibility
> forever, perhaps it's not unwise to consider adding such a requirement
> to some future version of the document, so that we have an escape hatch
> for dealing with future compatibility issues, if we need it.
> 
Backwards compatibility for ever isn't what we specified - only between
adjacent revisions.  We expected that they would be infrequent enough
for this to be OK.  Of course,  we may have been optimistic,  but I don't
see a rush of volunteers wanting to edit the next revision :-)

	David.