Improving the dictionary [was: LiveCode release notes]

[Peter TB Brett]

On 15/12/2015 19:26, Mark Wieder wrote:
> On 12/15/2015 11:09 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> Most of the entries do show the initial release date in the dictionary
>> but the problem is that we often can't recall what term to look up.
>
> Also, bug fixes don't necessarily fall into that category and probably
> won't show up in the dictionary.

Anything that changes the behaviour of the syntax definitely should be 
noted in the dictionary.

If it doesn't change the behaviour but just, for example, improves 
performance or fixes a crash in a pathological case, then it generally 
shouldn't be noted in the dictionary.

The core dev team tries very hard to *not* change behaviour of existing 
script syntax where it can be avoided -- because it's important not to 
break stacks that currently work (c.f. discussion about "save" vs 
"stackFileVersion").

I would like the dictionary to have a way to search its entries by "last 
changed in", "introduced in", and "deprecated in", but it currently 
looks like we won't have time to introduce that in 8.0.0.

                                         Peter

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LiveCode Open Source Team

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