A way to accommodate laguage changes

[Erik Max Francis]

Paul Boddie wrote:

> "from __past__ import" anyone? ;-)

This occurred to me as well, but it still doesn't address the problem of
backward compatibility.  With a from __past__ import construct or not,
legacy code will still break.  The problem is not fixing old code, it's
being unable to fix old code that is no longer accessible (either from
being passed around or by being instrumented at a client site).
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