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DRAFT

  1. Joy doesn’t need to change.

  1. The interpreter doesn’t need to change, viewer function can customize mainloop. Or use a sub-interpreter (Joy in Joy.) The base interpreter remains static.

  2. Once a function has been named and defined never change that name. It’s just not allowed. If you need to change a function foo you have to call it foo_II or something. Once a function (name mapped to behavior) is released to the public that’s it, it’s done.

  3. The language evolves by adding new definitions and refactoring, always choosing new names for new functions.

  1. Following Semantic Versioning there will never be a version 2.0.

  1. Major version must be incremented if any backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API.

  2. We never implement any backwards incompatible changes, so…

  3. We could see e.g. Thun version 1.273.3!