[Jscheme-user] Multiple Independent JSchemes (Timothy John Hickey)

[Jonathan A R. <ja...@mu...>]

Although I'm definitely in favor of institutionalizing the ability to
make instances of the interpreter, I'm also the sort of person who
gets annoyed at unnecessary backwards incompatibilities.  May I
suggest that you can have it both ways by keeping the static methods
around, but have them use some distinguished instance, stored
internally in a static field of some jsint class?  Then old code (like
mine) can use new versions of the library without having to switch
from the old static methods to the new dynamic ones, at least during a
transition period.  The static methods can be marked 'deprecated', and
clients can update their code at their leisure.

Jonathan