On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 01:27:17PM -0500, David Manura wrote:

> (3) There exists code that works with Version A, will not work with Version 
> B, but will work with an even more future Version C.  (probably a rare case)

> I think this scheme holds for interfaces changes.  I'd be interested to see 
> some real examples where #3 has occured.

Core perl managed it. 5.8.1 accidentally was not binary compatible with
5.8.0. 5.8.2 manages to be compatible with both 5.8.0 and 5.8.1

Nicholas Clark

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