It is best practice NOT to change an interface once it is established.
You MUST add a new interface for the changes, or risk losing backwards compatibility.



At 06:45 PM 4/26/04, you wrote:
On Sunday, April 25, 2004, at 03:47 pm, Stephen Kellett wrote:
If you needed to change an API, you'd create an Ex() version of it, ala Microsoft

Yuk. Please do not fall prey to the habits of an 800-lb gorilla. Microsoft's bad
design habits should not be relied upon as any sort of "standard practice."


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