[KCP] ?? ClassDescription>>classVersion

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Fri Jun 27 20:58:27 UTC 2003


On Friday 27 June 2003 01:49 pm, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
> Hi Ted if you are around and others,
>
> I found that in classDescription and it seems to me that this
> feature is really anedoctly used. There is only four implementors
> which is quite small if you think that nearly any class has gone
> over million of changes.
>
> ClassDescription>>classVersion
> 	"Default.  Any class may return a later version to inform readers
> that use ReferenceStream.  8/17/96 tk"
> 	^ 0

No, it's got to stay in there, to allow backwards-compability on 
serialization.

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