On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, David Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidleothomas@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidleothomas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Would it make sense to have a known-to-be-stable-though soft upper bound added proactively, and a known-to-break-above hard bound added reactively, so people can loosen gracefully as appropriate?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div></div></div></blockquote></div>I don't think so. It adds complexity, but more importantly it's usual for the existing upper bounds to refer to versions that don't exist at the time of writing (and hence can't be known to be stable).