Today, an old joke: Q: What do rocket scientists say when they want to describe a portion of their work as easy? A: "This bit isn't exactly brain surgery." I think that pretty much everyone would agree that rocket science and brain surgery are both...

There were a number of ideas in the comments for what we should do about the unfortunate situation I described yesterday . We considered all of these options and more. I thought I might talk a bit about the pros and cons of each. I suggested do nothing...

As you might have gathered, a lot of the decisions we have to make day-to-day here involve potential breaking changes on odd edge cases. Here's another one. Consider the following terrible but legal code: public interface I1<U> { void M(U...