[fitsbits] once FITS always FITS

Doug Mink dmink at cfa.harvard.edu
Wed Aug 22 18:18:44 EDT 2007


Maren Purves wrote:
> 
> Anything ever required cannot be disallowed
> and anything ever disallowed cannot be required
> 
> is about as far as I would go.

I would add:

Nothing that has not been required in the past can be required.

Otherwise, new readers will not be able to read old data at all.

-Doug Mink



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