Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

[Randy Hengst]

This doesn’t totally fit with the conversation, and I assume the Team knows this but… SORT assumes that a trailing comma indicates an empty item… for example:

on mouseUp
   local tTestITEMS
   
   put "1,2,3,4,5," into tTestITEMS
   answer the number of items in tTestITEMS && "ITEMS" && "tTestITEMS" && tTestITEMS
   -- will give FIVE items

   
   sort items of tTestITEMS by random(10000)
   answer the number of items in tTestITEMS && "ITEMS" && "tTestITEMS" && tTestITEMS
   -- will give SIX items

end mouseUp

be well
randy hengst
www.classroomFocusedSoftware.com



> On Aug 20, 2016, at 6:22 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at appisle.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 21 Aug 2016, at 8:57 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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".
> 
> That’s my feeling also. We know it impacts a popular library (Animation Engine), however, seeing as any code base that needs to be robust on all versions of LiveCode will need to ensure it doesn’t rely on empty trailing items with no delimiter after them I assume that will be need to be resolved regardless because all the 8.0.x series are impacted and a number of 7.x (we need to determine which ones).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Monte
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