Nicholas Clark <nick@[...].org>  writes:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:13:09PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> > It is far from clear that zillions of extra ,0 args being passed
> > is a win over Encode having its own variant.
> 
> Apologies that I've not looked at the functions before typing this, but
> what stops one variant being defined as a wrapper for the other, or both
> APIs being implemented as wrappers onto a common function?

Nothing at all. That is what we have now (bleadperl).
I made the old one a wrapper on a re-named new one.

> 
> If possible this would solve Simon's valid concern that two things doing
> nearly the same job is a bad thing, and your valid concern that binary
> compatibility is impossible.

Quite.

> 
> Nicholas Clark
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Nick Ing-Simmons