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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:54:13 +1000
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From: Peter Donald <donaldp@apache.org>
Subject: RE: [REVIEW/SUBMIT] Pattern-matching optimization
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At 05:51  3/4/01 -0700, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
>> If it was just us then that would be fine but to be honest we
>> don't know
>> who else has extended the classes and how they did it (and
>> many have). Thus
>> changing something that will break their builds is probably
>> not a good thing.
>>
>
>This is why I think we need to be a little more strict on defining the core.
>That core defines the programatic API that others use. We need to define
>what will be the evelotion strategy for the core.

Agreed - I take back my offer to make any private members public ;)
Cheers,

Pete

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