Subject: Re: package update.
From: Jim Lewis (jim@synthworks.com)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 07:45:35 PDT
David Bishop wrote:
> -- SNIP --
> Another point for discussion (on the pilot sig).
> Do we want to name the new package "numeric_std"? What do we do about
> forward compatability? If somebody write something to the new standard
> and it doesn't compile, how do they know they don't have the correct version
> of the package? We could change the name of the packages for the updates,
> then there would be a definate demarkation.
>
Are you thinking of appending a year code: numeric_std_2002 ?
I think this is a good idea as it helps with portability of old code.
Cheers,
Jim
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