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Pro: New builtins won't break old programs.

Perhaps the programmer wrote that max() builtinfunction because that functionalitythe builtin was not available in a previous version of the programming language. If the language does not allow user functions to shadow builtins, then old programs might no longer work in a newer version ofif the language, because of the name conflict with the recently-introduced introduces a new builtin it may break old programs that were already using that name.

Pro: New builtins won't break old programs.

Perhaps the programmer wrote that max() builtin because that functionality was not available in a previous version of the programming language. If the language does not allow user functions to shadow builtins, then old programs might no longer work in a newer version of the language, because of the name conflict with the recently-introduced builtin.

Pro: New builtins won't break old programs.

Perhaps the programmer wrote that max() function because the builtin was not available in a previous version of the programming language. If the language does not allow user functions to shadow builtins, then if the language introduces a new builtin it may break old programs that were already using that name.

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Pro: New builtins won't break old programs.

Perhaps the programmer wrote that max() builtin because that functionality was not available in a previous version of the programming language. If the language does not allow user functions to shadow builtins, then old programs might no longer work in a newer version of the language, because of the name conflict with the recently-introduced builtin.