>> Or at least there is such goal?
> Yes, it's a goal, [...].  Exceptions that I can remember or suspect
> are:

One that bit me, but isn't on your list:

* As of some release (2,0, I think it was), executables using nested
  functions built on older versions would crash on the new release.

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