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Re:Clojure 1.10 release by thaumasiotes on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:15PM (#18703157)
You don't think a breaking change to + is any more significant than a breaking change to some other part of the language?
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Re:Clojure 1.10 release by oulu2006 on Monday December 17, 2018 @09:52PM (#18704197)
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.

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Re:Clojure 1.10 release by roenxi on Monday December 17, 2018 @08:04PM (#18703733)
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.

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Re:Clojure 1.10 release by Skinney on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @01:03AM (#18704820)
A breaking release over 7 years ago, doesn't mean that having no (as far as I know) breaking changes for the last 6 years is any less impressive.
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