There are many cases where code for J6 won't run on J5. We won't be doing
any retrofits to J5.
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From: "Don Guinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Beta forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: [Jbeta] A backward compatability request
As to dropping the dots after x., y. etc. is OK. I'm perfectly happy with
the dotted form; however, if undotted parameters become the new way that's
fine too. The only real concern I have with this is backward
compatibility. I have an old tower which I seldom use, but it runs
Windows 98 so I cannot upgrade it to J6.
So how about having one more enhancement to J5 before it's put to bed.
Add support for both dotted and undotted arguments to it as in the J6
beta. I know that graphics and other things different in J6 would not be
the same, but at least it would not be impossible to share code between J5
and J6.
I think that this could make the transition to undotted arguments easier
for people, who for whatever reason are reluctant to move to J6 and must
still support J5, to go ahead and start converting code to the undotted
arguments.
Thanks for a wonderful tool!
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