On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > We will need to add special directives to support this feature.
>
> Or variables, per my earlier note.
I think Texinfo has traditionally refrained from reserving variables for
its own uses. Everything is solved with directives.
> One thought -- and perhaps this already exists -- is to introduce
> @infoversion as the first tag that should appear in the input. This
> specifies the major version of info to which the document was written, and
> would allow us to restructure info input a bit without breaking backwards
> compatibility.
I don't see how this will solve back-compatibility problems, since
@infoversion itself is not back-compatible.
OTOH, if someone wants back-compatibility, they should refrain from using
new features.
