It seems I've failed to make the point. Which I tried to make in the first sentence of my post.
I can sympathize with developer reluctance to support obsolete constructs. If they come in droves they ruin the clean lines of a fresh start. Yes I can trawl through my code looking for stdlib. Yes I can write my own version of "require" to go in my startup.ijs. If that was all that was at stake it wouldn't have been worth posting about. But that won't do for code that's gone beyond my control. The question to ask ourselves is: are we keen to confine use of j7 to a brave band of pioneers, or do we want to promote it? A good way to achieve the former is to arrange for heritage code released in the wild to fail to load. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:14 AM, chris burke <cbu...@jsoftware.com> wrote: >> I want to avoid maintaining different versions of scripts for j602 and j7 > as far as feasible. > > stdlib is loaded by default for both J6 and J7. You can safely remove > references to load or require it from both versions. > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > both verbs load and require come from stdlib, so that either it will >> fail... >> >> ...I see, whereas in j602 they were defined in jadefull.ijs . >> >> >why did you need it? >> >> Because scores of my scripts contain it, and will run unaltered >> otherwise. I'd rather not have to go changing (eg) >> require 'files stdlib' >> to: >> require 'files' NB. (I see that works in fact!) >> require '~system/main/stdlib.ijs' >> everywhere it occurs. I want to avoid maintaining different versions >> of scripts for j602 and j7 as far as feasible. >> >> Since stdlib can be taken for granted, I guess just to ignore it in >> require will suffice. >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:17 AM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > J7 could be changed to ignore instead of raise an error for it. However >> > both verbs load and require come from stdlib, so that either it will fail >> > or just a no-op, why did you need it? >> > >> > Сбт, 03 Дек 2011, Ian Clark писал(а): >> >> Can I offer a suggestion which would assist the porting of j602 code >> >> to j7 jhs? ... >> >> >> >> As it stands, >> >> require 'stdlib' >> >> -won't work in j7 jhs: it incorrectly locates: 'stdlib'. Ditto: >> >> require 'stdlib files' >> >> load 'stdlib' >> >> >> >> Can we have these idioms supported in j7 jhs as they are in j602 please? >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> > -- >> > regards, >> > ==================================================== >> > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 >> > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
