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On 09 Aug 2001, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 21:08 8/08/01 -0600, Tom Fjellstrom wrote:
> >Im not sure if anyone has realized this or not but
> >shouldn't 'clear()' be 'clear_bitmap()'?
..
> >Sure this might break some things but thats
> >what #defines are for.
>
> I disagree here. It breaks backward compatibilty, but not badly. I'd say:
> make a note saying that the function was renamed and tell people to update
> their code.
`clear' has been around since the dawn of man, and it's everywhere.
We REALLY can't break it. I for one don't want to update every
single Allegro program I've written in the last five years or so.
> The API also changed slightly when arguements to functions were
> declared `const' where they previously were not. I'd look at this as a bug
> fix.
Bad comparison.