[Mono-devel-list] Some patches for Collection

Ben Maurer bmaurer at ximian.com
Thu Feb 17 12:12:48 EST 2005


> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 09:41 -0500, Ben Maurer wrote:
>
>> It is broken. People rely on it in production code. So we do the
>> trivial fix.
>
> So they have to fix their code.

Every other LAMESPEC we fix, this is no different.

> Next week someone comes and relies on Equals() being in the same way
> broken, but the other way around - should we now keep changing it back
> and forth each time someone complains ?

That person's code will not work on the MSFT runtime, so they had a bug
anyways.

Let's just recap the facts:

 - This is a bug that has manifested itself in similar cases before. These
were not tests for pendantic correctness, but real life bugs filed by
users.
 - The patch is trivial
 - Any app it breaks would not run on the msft runtime anyways.

So the solution should be obvious, put in the patch.

-- Ben






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