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in reply to Re^7: Modernizing the Postmodern Language?
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you come to me saying we are going to break backward compatibility because ...

I think the plan is saying that, or maybe "we're going to break backward compatibility so that we can".

my old code may become broken

I don't think that's going to be the case. Code that's not explicitly marked as 7-safe should continue to work as 5-safe.

(Whether that happens in practice is still in discussion, as I understand it.)