On Feb 7, 2010, at 6:32 PM, mdipierro wrote: > We could add an option like "strict=False" that if true does what you > ask.
What's the use case? I'm having trouble seeing what such an option would do for you. Sure, IS_UPPER() should probably have been named TO_UPPER(). But at this point.... > > On Feb 7, 8:22 pm, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote: >> But in this case (provided that we really change IS_UPPER() as >> Pihentagy suggested), you can rely on the human, because they can not >> input lower case. Your app still need not to edit a single line. :) >> >> Well, sounds like I support changing IS_UPPER() 's behavior. But >> actually I am neutral to this proposal. >> >> On Feb7, 3:24pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: >> >>> It will break backwards compatibility. >> >>> I have apps that rely on the functionality of IS_UPPER applying >>> .upper() to the incoming variables. Anything that requires me to edit >>> a single line of code on my app to just upgrade web2py breaks >>> backwards compatibility, unless it was a bug to begin with. >> >>> -Thadeus >> >>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote: >>>> @Pihentagy: >> >>>> Besides, the current IS_UPPER() (and IS_LOWER()) is not that bad, >>>> IMHO. What is the real difference between alarm end user to change his >>>> input into upper case, or just silently change his input into upper >>>> case? >> >>>> To say the least, we can really change IS_UPPER() to just warning, and >>>> perhaps another UPPERCASE() to uppercase. As long as the old apps do >>>> not really break, but just sightly change its behavior in acceptable >>>> range, I consider web2py is still backward compatible. >> >>>> About web3py, Renato says all. :) >> >>>> On Feb6, 8:24pm, Renato-ES-Brazil <renatoa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Web3py is an alternative, check this: >> >>>>>> When GAE moves to 3.0 and the database drivers for all supported >>>>>> backends become available we will release something like web3py (TM). >>>>>> Since we are going to break language backward compatibility that will >>>>>> also be a good time to include other non-backward compatible changes. >>>>>> 2010-2011 are reasonable dates but just a guess. >> >>>>> URL:http://www.mail-archive.com/web2py@googlegroups.com/msg09344.html >> >>>>> On 6 fev, 08:12, pihentagy <pihent...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>>> Hi! >> >>>>>> Looking into the code of IS_UPPER I realized, that this function does >>>>>> not do, what I expect to do. >>>>>> I thought it only allows strings, which does not have lowercase >>>>>> letters, but it actually converts the string to uppercase. >> >>>>>> Since web2py promises backwards compatibility, and here IMHO this >>>>>> method is mis-named, how would you solve the situation? >> >>>>>> BTW when I come across the fact, that web2py will be always backwards >>>>>> compatible, a loud alarm began to horn in my head: then how would you >>>>>> maintain the code in 2, 3, 10 years? It will blow up. >> >>>>>> Or, when it becomes hard to maintain, you began a new project named >>>>>> web3py? :) >> >>>>>> Gergo >> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "web2py-users" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group >>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
