Thanks for the heads-up, John -

I would agree that your changes are a more natural locution. I use these
words a lot
in various vocabs, but I reckon it won't be too hard to adapt to this new
pattern.

Cheers,
~cw

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:55 PM, John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I pushed a (breaking compatibility) change to the development branch of
> Factor that swaps the arguments for ``start``, ``start*``, and ``subseq?``.
>
> Instead of:
>
>     ( subseq seq -- ? )
>
> it is now:
>
>     ( seq subseq -- ? )
>
> It is more natural this way, and most places it was used did some form of
> ``swap subseq?``, but it does create a backwards compatibility problem in a
> relatively common word.
>
> Please let me know if this is a problem for anyone.
>
> Thanks,
> John.
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