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Re:Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust by Nae3Au5x on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:04AM (#17670348)
Some people may depend on them, but the difference between API guarantees and implementation details is that developers are far less reluctant to break your legs... I mean your application if you depend on the latter.

For example in java the iteration order of hash maps or the behavior of sorts in presence of non-reflexive comparators changed and people did depend on that. Sun was able to change it because it was not part of the API contract.

Re:Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust by pure-awesome on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:24AM (#17670409)
Man, depending on sort order with a non-reflexive comparator is a TERRIBLE idea. Almost on the level of https://xkcd.com/1172/