> For example, if you had foo(point) and much later you want to add
> foo(box), someone might complain that foo('(1,2)') has worked for many
> releases now, and how common is that use? If we had started out with
> foo(point) and foo(line) simultaneously, this wouldn't have become a
> problem.
You may provide foo(TEXT) along foo(box) so that foo('(1,2)') works as it
did before.
--
Fabien.