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>Nit: Adding a keyword is not a breaking change, removing them is. Of course adding a keyword is a breaking change. It will invalidate all uses of that keyword
by knome 5y ago
>Nit: Adding a keyword is not a breaking change, removing them is.
Of course adding a keyword is a breaking change. It will invalidate all uses of that keyword where used as a variable. Perhaps PHP is unaffected, as it has sigils on its variables, but most languages, including haskell, do not.
- masklinn 5y ago> Perhaps PHP is unaffected, as it has sigils on its variables Locals are prefixed but functions, constants, and classes are not. Also barewords but that horror was removed in php 8.