New chunks

[Alan Stenhouse]

Wouldn't it be simple to

set the itemDel to tab
put item 1 of line x of fld y into tDate


Granted, slightly more work, but since itemDel changes are limited to only the local handler, it's not too big a deal, is it?

Or am I missing something else?

Re: the change to "word" - I'd love for it to function seamlessly with unicode and actually work properly according to what "normal" people's idea of a word is. Isn't that the reason we use livecode?

Regarding using another term for the previous behaviour - legacyWord or revWord seem reasonable. Some scripts will need changed, but such are the side-effects of progress…

cheers

Alan

On 13/03/2014, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

>   3/13/14 <tab> text <tab> more text
> 
> and without even thinking about it, I grab the date:
> 
>   put word 1 of line x of fld y into tDate
> 
> And then I stop short and think about what I'd need to do if "word" 
> wasn't a word any more. <Sob.>
> 
> This is going to take some getting used to. I've been having this kind 
> of double-take all night. I didn't realize at first just how much I use 
> that token. Changing "word" is going to be a huge hit for a while.