OldSocket backward compatibility considered harmful
Michael Rueger
michael at squeakland.org
Tue Nov 16 17:55:21 UTC 2004
Michael Rueger wrote:
> Unless somebody provides a really compelling argument why he needs these
> methods they should be removed not just deprecated.
Apologies in so far as this update actually just came into the stream, I
got confused with what the current update number was ;-)
But to reiterate, applications using the old methods (like HTTPSocket)
should be ported forward and not Socket be made backward compatible a
year after the rewrite.
Michael
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