Backwards compatibility makes old reference works valid. Breaking it
increases the work needed to learn the language.

Removing x. and y. when introducing x and y is one example of breaking
backwards compatibility.

Another example is

   require 'general/misc/prompt'

where in older versions off J this was:

   require'misc'

So here's the question: what are we doing to unbreak the breakages
caused by these sorts of changes?

Thanks,

-- 
Raul
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