I agree that the concern of future proposals should be backward compatibility, 
though I personaly think that Swift 4 will be full of breaking changes anyway 
(not as many as Swift 3, but there will be quite a few). In that matter, I'm 
not sure that stressing backward compatibility is better than stressing better 
desing for the years to come.

> On Jul 21, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> With the end of Swift 3 drawing near, we'll need to start designing with an 
> eye toward backward compatibility. To that end, I think we should update the 
> "Impact on existing code" proposal template to start asking writers to 
> consider backward compatibility concerns. Here's some draft verbage to that 
> effect:
> 
> https://github.com/jckarter/swift-evolution/blob/4bdd1b875a8402ec6bbabb3f37151262f130af2b/0000-template.md#backward-compatibility
> 
> Any concerns, revisions, or objections?
> 
> -Joe
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