On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Wow. I can imagine about a thousand ways that this could break
> existing applications. I would not be prepared to bet a dollar that
> anything I've written would survive the impact unscathed.
>
> I have a feeling someone else is going to shoot you out of the water
> completely, but all I'll say is it would definitely need to be
> OPTIONAL.
I guess I don't get how it would break existing applications. All of
the regression tests pass. The parameters are passed as a copy, so it
can't modify your variable that you pass in. Perhaps I'm missing
something--can you elaborate on how this would break existing
applications?
-Steve