Would anyone miss convertOctals?

Mark Smith marksmithhfx at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 09:06:07 EDT 2022



> On 9 Jun 2022, at 1:44 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> So I'm currently sitting here about to embark on fixing <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23653> (which is the final thing to sort out before being able to merge my constant expression patch) and I was reminded of 'convertOctals'.
> 
> So three questions:
> 
>  1) Do you know what convertOctals is, and what it does?

	No (I guessed it might be converting Octals to Decimals but a quick dictionary check indicated nope!)
> 
> P.S. In the scheme of 'breaking changes' - we've already made a number of them for 10 already, and my gut tells me removing convertOctals is likely to cause less consternation than those we already have - but I could be wrong!

Thanks for the section in the Release Notes called Breaking Changes. Very useful.

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