Ordinal numbers

[Mark Wieder]

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.

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-Mark Wieder
 ahsoftware at gmail.com

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