What is "Open Language"?

[Richmond]

On 26/10/15 16:51, Rick Harrison 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,

Um: my endless thousands of numToChar statements in my Devawriter Pro 
will have to
be rewritten should I decide to move my code-base from LC 4.5 to LC 7.* 
or higher.

R.

> 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 <mark at 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).
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