Re: Advice on how best to handle non-backwards compatibility
Scripsit Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>
> But the printing system DOES magically stops working if the current
> incarnation of lprngtool that provides the master-filter script gets
> replaced by one that doesn't.
OK, I didn't know that. (In fact, I checked my own lprngtool-generated
printcap, and it didn't seem to contain anything harmful. Yes, one
datapoint, I know).
> The problem is that it also provides PRINTING FUNCTIONALITY,
That was never revealed in the package description, was it?
--
Henning Makholm "It was intended to compile from some approximation to
the M-notation, but the M-notation was never fully defined,
because representing LISP functions by LISP lists became the
dominant programming language when the interpreter later became available."
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