Geoffrey Young writes: > Adam Kennedy wrote: > > > That is irrelevant. You put something into CPAN, get massive numbers > > of people using it, and leave it alone and have it remain stable for > > 4 years, it becomes an API whether you wanted it to be or not :) > > really?
I'm with Adam on this one. > so I use an age old (but undocumented) feature of Config, then Config > changes and it's _not_ my fault?[1] > > [1] http://dev.perl.org/perl5/list-summaries/2005/20051003.html But there Schwern invoked Tom Christian: You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implementation and then relied upon it. -- tchrist in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Note that's specifically to do with peeking inside. If you don't peek inside some code but merely observe its output, and its output always behaves in a particular way, then relying on that output is not the same as relying on implementation details. Smylers
