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On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 4:40:55 AM UTC-6, Lucretia wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 09:29:58 UTC+1, Jacob Sparre Andersen  wrote:
>=20
> > At some point we will have accept to break backwards compatibility, but
> > I can't see how and when it will happen.
>=20
> Some people have been saying this for years, but how long it long enough =
to wait? I think it's worth starting to look at this now.
>=20
> Luke

I think it might be.
One thing that might be good to do is look into how to make the language sm=
aller -- for example, if there were a way to define "abstract interfaces" (=
to include custom/user-defined attributes), we could simplify the language =
by defining things like discrete, scalar, numeric, array "abstract interfac=
es" containing the predefined language attributes. (While at first glance, =
most of that is just "moving things around" it does allow for some nice con=
solidation.)

I also think the ability to be able to define [[Long_]Long_]String in terms=
 of the appropriate [[Long_]Long_]Character and having the [[Long_]Long_]St=
ring-packages be instantiations thereof would simplify things as well. (Thi=
s would allow a single 'generic' definition in the standard.)