David Abrahams wrote:
No - I asked for a pledge that if this happened in the future it would be considered a bug.
Whom did you you ask for a pledge?
Emil Here is where I asked for it http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/07/139893.php Here is his response I got http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/07/139894.php which includes the quote:
I would ask that library authors that cannot make a similar pledge include a disclaimer in thier documentation and header files something on the order of: ... You can ask anything you want and you can assume anything you want about Boost libraries, but the fact is that they do change and occasionally breaking changes are introduced, which may or may not be regressions.
which I took to at face value and acted accordingly. Robert Ramey