18 Dec
2008
18 Dec
'08
12:08 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver@palladion.com> wrote:
If we just leave the name importable from the old location, what is hurt? The major downside is that people won't learn about the new location. I consider this to be less an issue than the two problems I outline above.
Agreed. Moving things around in public packages without preserving backward compatibility creates real nuisances, and just not generating warnings avoids lots of pain. This doesn't mean that you can't teach people about new locations; you just don't need to do it every time they run your code. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller