Comment 1 for bug 479483

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Nikodemus Siivola (nikodemus) wrote :

Actually, I don't think breaking backwards compatibility would be too terrible here: my assumption is that :FORCE is in 99% of cases called manually, so as long as users are made aware of the change it should break very little.

That said, easiest way might be to make it

 :FORCE-RECURSIVE <boolean>
 :FORCE-SHALLOW <boolean>

and deprecate :FORCE, but keep it as an alias for :FORCE-RECURSIVE for a year or so.