Re:Clojure 1.10 release
by thaumasiotes on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:15PM
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You don't think a breaking change to + is any more significant than a breaking change to some other part of the language?
As has been answered elsewhere in this discussion:
That was over 7 years ago, so not particularly recent. And you can get the auto-promoting behavior with +' instead.
I don't see how a change could be much more minor, honestly.
It is a breaking change, that sort of change could introduce bugs into existing codebases. If that matters, you can't upgrade your Clojure version without careful change management anyway.
It isn't like reduce is being depreciated or something. I don't need to change how I think about the language.
The issue here is that, based on the way they (particularly Rich) talk, we can expect they will not do Bloody Stupid things like the old Python 2->3 changeover. Things like big, breaking changes that require architectural changes to keep current, or break all the available tutorials.
If the problem can be fixed with a macro or single function (like a change to plus behavior) it is an irritant, not a threat to productivity. That is not a concern.