[fpc-devel] "Blank slate" next version of FPC
Florian Klämpfl
florian at freepascal.org
Sat Feb 16 09:43:32 CET 2019
Am 16.02.19 um 08:29 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton:
> Hm, fair enough. Seems a bit strange to not like a new feature,
> although Delphi did start getting a bit bloated in places. Ah well!
> Compatibility is never a bad thing though!
"Do not break people's code" is one of FPC design goals. So anything not
backward is out of scope of FPC. Of course, sometimes we cannot avoid
this, but we try as much as possible to break old code.
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