Richmond- Friday, July 4, 2014, 10:53:00 AM, you wrote:
> Backwards compatibility is a good thing: As a generic statement, I think that's arguable (as in "yeah, I know it's broken and stupid but now we can't fix it because someone somewhere might be relying on the current behavior"). > So; perhaps the way to keep everybody happy (well, Thee and Me, at > least) is to have some sort of > rider in the Dictionary where the ordinal numbers are, that that is for > backward compatibility and > "delete char 3" is to be preferred. Yes, I'd like to see the term "deprecated" used more liberally in the dictionary. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately. _______________________________________________ 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