Ordinal numbers

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Richmond,

I agree, removing the ordinals would be a solution, but that would also 
cause backwards incompatibility and actually I like these remnants from 
the HyperCard times. Why not just keep them? They just need to be 
documented properly (although this never was a problem for several decades).

When I wrote my previous e-mail, I was thinking of writing that you 
could just ignore the ordinals and not teach them, but any smart kid 
reading about them in the documentary would still notice the problem and 
in a way it would be immoral to hide such information :-)

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 7/4/2014 10:04, Richmond wrote:
>
> My feature request would be to REMOVE the ordinals! Then one could ONLY do:
>
> delete char 3  and so on
>
> and things would be consistent.
>
> Certainly my "grumble" (and it is only a grumble, it is NOT a roaring
> complaint) is about
> inconsistencies, which makes teaching Livecode a bit more difficult than
> perhaps may be
> necessary.
>
> Richmond.
>