On Monday, 9 de January de 2012 18.46.01, Piotr Dobrogost wrote: > Giuseppe D'Angelo <dangelog <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Being an API break, do you see any good motivation to justify it? > > Yes, it can only be done in new major version. When if not now?
Never.
> > (I agree that the method name is wrong since it creates the reply, but
> > breaking software "just because" doesn't sound good to me either)
>
> Well, having method createX which creates Y doesn't sound good to me either.
Indeed, but we can't change it if we want to maintain source compatibility. A
source compatibility breakage must be justified and I don't think this one is.
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