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That's not a backward-compatible change. Branches that now take either the then or the else branch will take no branch instead. Obviously, that would change the
by eloff 9y ago
That's not a backward-compatible change. Branches that now take either the then or the else branch will take no branch instead. Obviously, that would change the meaning of many programs in ways the author didn't intend by not executing the code in those branches.
- lisper 9y agoYeah, I should have said it was syntactically backwards compatible. It's obviously not semantically backwards compatible.