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Re: Apologia for bzr


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Apologia for bzr
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:53:31 -0500

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    At least on the lisp 
    level, we would have to maintain compatibility aliases effectively 
    forever, doubling the number of lisp symbols dealing with these 
    concepts.

I don't think it has to be forever.  After a few years,
we could drop the old names.

We could rename `window' to `pane', but not rename `frame'.
That way, there would be no incompatibility, and only one stage
of renaming would be required.

I am still not saying we _should_ do this.

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