On Sep 23, 2015 1:32 PM, "Mark Waddingham" <m...@livecode.com> wrote: > > On 2015-09-23 18:53, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> A regression with UNC paths was recently fixed: >> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15814> >> >> Most interesting to me there is that it allows the use of the >> Windows-specific "\" as a file path delimiter. > > > This is very much a case of 'unintended consequences' or 'just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you should' (and why maintaining, updating, evolving the engine whilst retaining backwards compatibility can be very very difficult at times).
Since I didn't have the good fortune of being personally tutored by the creator of MetaCard, and am primarily a Windows user, when I pasted a UNC path and "it just worked", I was like WOW, those runrev guys have really made this Revolution thing super easy for the novice. Go team! > > >> I didn't know OS-specific delimiters could be used. > > > That's good - you shouldn't use them - it would probably be best that everyone forgets that you can, and try to ensure you don't use them anywhere in new applications :) > Please announce this on first run if the OS isn't *nix based, or warn in the script editor. One fact regarding this anomaly is that after 6.5.2 it no longer worked with the preferred // either. > > However, as I said above, don't use OS specific separators in your paths in new apps / code. Always use '/' and let the engine do the right thing - you'll be better off that way :) > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > ~Roger _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
