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