Re: Amazing how forgiving the older LC engines are...

2019-11-11 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Yup.While upgrading from 7 to 8 and from 8 to 9 I had several "I can't believe this code worked" moments. I prefer an unforgiving interpreter. thats why I fell in love with Rust and its ridiculously unforgiving compiler. Haven't had to use it yet, but look forward to it. On Mon, Nov 11, 201

Amazing how forgiving the older LC engines are...

2019-11-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I just got bit by how forgiving older LC engines version are. Migrating a stack from LC6.7.11 to LC9.5.1. There is a handle to perform a "select all" on a particular list field where "select all" means select all lines but the first. The code was essentially:   put empty into tLineList   repe