Sean E. Russell wrote:
> On Sunday 29 January 2006 15:56, mathew wrote:
>   
>> Is there some reason why a thin API facade is impossible? You wouldn't
>> need to make it high performance.
>>     
>
> What do you mean by an API facade?
>   

Something that accepts calls via the old API, and translates them into 
appropriate calls into the new API.

>> Perl is another example of the "sounds good, throw it in" approach to
>>     
>
> You'll notice that none of the languages you've mentioned have built-in 
> support for versioned libraries.  It isn't quite clear to me why this keeps 
> getting missed in language design, especially in the younger languages.

Having seen the response to suggestions of incorporating versioning and 
RubyGems into Ruby, I think I could hazard a guess...


mathew