Re: [netmod] type equivalence

Ladislav Lhotka <ladislav.lhotka@nic.cz> Mon, 22 February 2021 10:22 UTC

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On 22. 02. 21 11:11, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:00:36AM +0100, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> 
>> But I thought that Jürgen's question was directed to the definition of
>> backward compatibility in the semver context.
> 
> No, the background is not semver here, it is "can we harmonize N
> different existing definition of "0..100" to one. And it seems the
> answer is "no", at least not in a backwards compatible way if people
> picked different base types.

+1

Lada

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> /js
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