Re: LDAP extended and revamped

Monday, 29 November 1999

        Robert Pluim <rpluim(a)bigfoot.com&gt; writes:

...
  > Renaming doesn't necessarily entail breaking backward
  > compatibility.  If you want to be kind to your users, define
  > functions with old names that do nothing except call the new
  > functions.

 Wouldn't define-{obsolete,compatible}-function-alias be better here? 
Yes, good point -- except when the calling conventions differ, and the
compatibility functions have to do trivial processing to retrofit old
arguments into new ones.

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