Backwards compatibility or sanity? help
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Aug 20 18:57:46 EDT 2016
Monte Goulding wrote:
>> On 21 Aug 2016, at 8:47 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> The current behavior for Trevor's test is consistent with item
>> counts. If we change it we open up that can of worms about
>> delimiters all over again, and undo Mark's thinking on this.
>
> Yes the point is there’s a legacy of `is among` behaving differently
> than other delimiter iterators. So I guess we need to determine if we
> consider the change in behavior in LiveCode 8 a fix to a bug or a
> regression to a behavior.
It would appear that the current behavior in v8 is a fix that addresses
a previously anomalous handling of delimiters in the case of "is among".
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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