Re: is class file backward compatible -- JAVA400-L

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Like on 1 character CL variables ;-)
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James R. Perkins

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:37, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Joe Sam Shirah wrote:

the question went from reasonable for a newbie, to magical. There is
no product that can guarantee that future versions will *always* run

older

things. Feel free to argue, but someone can always come up with

scenarios

(even if extreme) that wouldn't work.

Of course IBM i users have come to expect that from IBM :)

Sometimes they break backwards compatibility ... but it's fairly rare.

david

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