On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:17:58PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > The maintenance burden argument always used to remove stuff. I've used > it myself plenty of times. Sometimes, it really is too painful. But, > sometimes -- and, again, I consider myself guilty -- we've ripped things > out under the banner of tidiness and maintenance that imposed a lot of > pain on users.
In this case, it is proposed to move hash_set and hash_map from <ext/..> to <backward/..>. How does that decrease the maintainance burden? It just breaks code.