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Walt On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Rick Harrison <harri...@all-auctions.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Whenever one deprecates code, it destroys someone’s code somewhere. > Don’t do it. > > I had a project I had worked on for 10 years of my life. It encompassed > over 70,000 lines of hard won hand-written code. One day the company > who was producing the language decided to make some major changes > deprecating much of the language. There was no migration tool provided > by the company to make the changes painless. > > I spent yet another year of my life hand coding the changes to get the code > working again. Two years later, the company did the same thing yet again! > I couldn’t afford to go through the process yet again. My code was > basically destroyed by the company by deprecation of the code base. > > A work around is to let all previous versions work, and put the final > winning > candidate into the dictionary, the others will no longer appear in the > documentation. This solves the problem with the least disruption as it > doesn’t break anyone’s code, but helps to streamline the desired future > syntax for the language. > > Just my 2 cents for the day. > > Cheers, > > Rick > > > > > > > On Oct 26, 2015, at 5:00 AM, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> wrote: > > > > So, I do think that in this case it would be far better to *choose* what > variant spelling is the normative one and deprecate all the other synonyms > at least until there is a much better mechanism in place for parsing and > resolving synonyms (i.e. when compound properties are specified as separate > words, and synonyms are substitutions done as a pre-processing step). > > _______________________________________________ > 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
