Would you remember the bug number by any chance? (I'm not questioning
the fix, just the consequences on existing programs. Having a documented
explanation for the "change" will help users understand why any code
that they wrote that depended on that faulty behavior will need to be
changed.)
On 8/16/2016 8:05 PM, Rick McGuire wrote:
The old behavior was a bug. Because the array class had a makestring
method, it should have been used for things like say and other uses
where a string value was required. I won't go into the reasons why,
but this was never properly implemented. I fixed this in (I believe)
the 4.0 release, but backed the fix out when I discovered the
implementation had a problem that could crash the interpreter. This
problem was fixed in 5.0 and the correct behavior was restored.
Rick
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Gil Barmwater
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I was just playing with the new ooRexx5.0.0 Beta and noticed a
change in
behavior. In earlier releases, the code
trio = .array~of(1,2,3); say trio
produced "an Array". However, in 5.0.0, it produces 3 lines
containing
1, 2 and 3 respectively, the same as
say trio~makeString.
Reading the documentation it appears the new behavior is the
correct one
and the old one was a bug but I didn't find a bug for it in the
Changes
document. So the questions are 1) was this intentional (fixing an
incorrect result) and if so, where is it documented, and 2) will this
change cause old programs to break (quite possibly) and is the risk
acceptable?
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