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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