set the stackFileVersion

[Scott Morrow]

Thanks all.  The explanations were helpful in clarifying.  I was  
using a somewhat  more convoluted method.
-Scott Morrow

On Nov 27, 2006, at 10:12 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Klaus Major wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>> Klaus,
>>>
>>> Your solution will still cause a compile error when the stack is  
>>> opened or the script applied. Instead, do this:
>>> do "set the stackFileVersion to" && quote & "2.4" & quote
>> maybe I'm a bit slow, but why should this cause an error? :-)
>> I thought the "if...then" would prevent this script from being  
>> executed by engines < 2.7.
>
> I had to do the same thing when revising the MC IDE. As Mark said,  
> the script won't compile if there is an unknown property anywhere  
> in it. But "do" statements are not compiled when the script is  
> saved, they are only compiled when they need to be run during  
> script execution. So that's how we sneak it past the earlier  
> engines -- hide it in a "do" statement which doesn't get compiled  
> until it is needed.
>
> -- 
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