That's a fair point since we have larger sets of breaking changes planned. And
better refactor tools planned that might allow an 0.98-to-0.99 upgrade path
Okay, I agree and will revert in a few. Sorry for the churn.
Thanks,
John.
> On Jan 21, 2017, at 3:44 AM, Jon Harper <jon.harpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> How close is the next release ? I saw Slava's taunt on github
> https://github.com/factor/factor/issues/1783 :)
>
> Maybe revert it for 0.98 and go with this for 0.99 ? Code will break silently
> on this since the number of arguments is the same.
>
>
> Jon
>
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 12:27 PM, CW Alston <cwalsto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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