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by kodra 1039 days ago
You mean new reserved words? For example, I'm quite sure when C# added "record" it didn't break backward compatibility, as old code that uses "record" as a variable name still compiles.
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Go has made changes like that by adding new predeclared identifiers ("any" is an example, I think?) but there's a distinction between predeclared identifiers and keywords.