[swift-evolution] [Meta] Updating the proposal template to prompt backward compatibility concerns

[Charlie Monroe]

I agree that the concern of future proposals should be backward compatibility, though I personaly think that Swift 4 will be full of breaking changes anyway (not as many as Swift 3, but there will be quite a few). In that matter, I'm not sure that stressing backward compatibility is better than stressing better desing for the years to come.

> On Jul 21, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> With the end of Swift 3 drawing near, we'll need to start designing with an eye toward backward compatibility. To that end, I think we should update the "Impact on existing code" proposal template to start asking writers to consider backward compatibility concerns. Here's some draft verbage to that effect:
> 
> https://github.com/jckarter/swift-evolution/blob/4bdd1b875a8402ec6bbabb3f37151262f130af2b/0000-template.md#backward-compatibility
> 
> Any concerns, revisions, or objections?
> 
> -Joe
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