On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > True, although my assumption is that since this is a DevMode-only > behavior (null becomes window), we're actually doing everyone a favor by > fixing the behavior to match web mode, and in doing so highlighting > previously-missed/potential bugs in their application code/test code. > > So, it seems like the consideration could be less careful than, say, a > semantics change where people might still want the previous behavior. > > (I'm assuming for this change that the previous behavior really isn't > all that desirable, once you know about it/update your code/tests > accordingly...) >
I agree, but asking anyone to have to make changes in working code as a consequence of upgrading increases the cost, even if they are good changes. -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
