> On Jul 28, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Ted F.A. van Gaalen <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> The Swift team at Apple has reflected on this and decided what it "means" 
>> for Swift 3 to be source compatible with Swift 4 and later releases going 
>> forward. Our goal is to allow app developers to combine a mix of Swift 
>> modules (e.g., SwiftPM packages), where each module is known to compile with 
>> a specific version of the language (module A works with Swift 3, module B 
>> works with Swift 3.1, etc.), then combine those modules into a single 
>> binary. The key feature is that a module can be migrated from Swift 3 to 3.1 
>> to 4 (and beyond) independently of its dependencies.
> 
> This sounds like a reasonable solution...
> If I understand you correctly;
>    The compiler(s)  would be able to compile sources from 3.0 and future 
> versions?

Correct.

> Unfortunately that doesn’t go back to 2.2, 

Correct - this doesn’t apply to Swift 2.2 or Swift 2.3.  Source compatibility 
will start with Swift 3, just like we’ve been saying for some time now.

-Chris

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