I have never used an octal. But it well might break legacy handlers of others, however simple it is to write a custom function to replicate.
Craig > On Jun 9, 2022, at 10:37 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Never use octal. pretty much any entries theses days are decimal or > hexadecimal. Even binary (bit shifting or masks) is exceedingly rare > > > On 6/9/2022 8:44 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: >> So I'm currently sitting here about to embark on fixing >> <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23653> (which is the final >> thing to sort out before being able to merge my constant expression patch) >> and I was reminded of 'convertOctals'. >> >> Now, generally, I am somewhat averse to actually removing any language >> feature (even those we have deprecated, unless we absolutely have to!) - >> however, I would really like to make convertOctals have no effect at all in >> 10.0+ as it adds a disproportionate amount of complexity compared to (what I >> think, at least) its utility is (particularly in the context of things >> 'coming next' like the script compiler). >> >> So three questions: >> >> 1) Do you know what convertOctals is, and what it does? >> >> 2) If you do, have you ever actually used it in any scripts which are >> actually still in use? >> >> 3) If you do use it in any scripts which are still in use, would you be >> willing to change them to not use it? >> >> 4) If you do use/have used it, had you ever noticed that it has been >> slightly broken for years? >> >> Now, its always better to offer a carrot when there is a stick (or in this >> case, an axe) being wielded and the carrot in this case would be to expand >> the numeric literal syntax to add both explicit octal and binary number >> literals alongside hexadecimal: >> >> 0xabcdef - hex literal >> 0o777 - octal literal >> 0b101110101 >> >> The key difference between 0o777 and using 0777 (with convertOctals true) is >> that the former is not ambiguous at parse time, it doesn't require a runtime >> property set to true in order for the engine to convert the string to a >> number correctly. >> >> Please let me know your thoughts :) >> >> Warmest Regards, >> >> Mark. >> >> P.S. In the scheme of 'breaking changes' - we've already made a number of >> them for 10 already, and my gut tells me removing convertOctals is likely to >> cause less consternation than those we already have - but I could be wrong! >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
