• A design characteristic that allows a system to accept input intended for a later version of itself. The concept can be applied to entire systems, telecommunication signals, electrical interfaces, data communication protocols, file formats, and programming languages. A standard supports forward-compatibility if a product that complies with earlier versions can “gracefully” process input designed for later versions of the standard, ignoring new parts which it does not understand. ← Wikipedia

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