Livecode 10.0.0dp5 new reserved words
Mark Wieder
ahsoftware at sonic.net
Tue Jul 11 12:54:53 EDT 2023
On 7/11/23 07:56, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> On 7/11/2023 8:26 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
>> Cases of using 'tExt' is not uncommon - as it is really difficult to
>> see that it is 'text'... Another one (which bit Ali recently) is
>> `pLayer'. I'm sure there are a fair few other examples.
I'm not sure this is a bug that should be "fixed" other than with the
breaking change warning as MW mentioned.
> Ouch! 'pLayer' is another I'd better check for. I may have used that as
> well!
Of course neither tExt nor pLayer would be a problem if you enabled
explicitVariables ("strict compilation mode" in LC preferences). If you
tried to script that as a variable you'd get the compilation error
not a valid variable or constant name
--
Mark Wieder
ahsoftware at gmail.com
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