Re: [icu-design] Proposal: Change ICU4C PluralRules.select(int32_t) to select(double)

[<yos...@us...>]

> To support this we need to extend PluralRules.select(long) to take a
> double parameter instead. This API is currently marked Draft ICU 3.8
> (but this should be a compatible automatic coercion anyway).

My understanding is that this requires the client code to be re-compiled. 
Why can't we add the same API with the different signature rather than 
replacing the existing API with the different signature?

-Yoshito