From: Guy K. K. <g....@ma...> - 2009-05-10 21:54:02
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On Mon, 11 May 2009 09:19:10 Bruce Sherwood wrote: > It's likely that when David Scherer created Visual in 2000 these > conventions were not well established. For internal consistency we can't > really change now. You've got a point there, but ... even Python is reinventing itself with the 3.0 version to get rid of old annoyances. So there could be a "parallel API" for an intermediate time, to keep things working, and later the old API could be marked as deprecated to "wash them out". If it works with Python (also to some lesser extent in older version changes), why shouldn't it work with Visual? Guy -- Guy K. Kloss Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences Te Kura Pūtaiao o Mōhiohio me Pāngarau Room 2.63, Quad Block A Building Massey University, Auckland, Albany Private Bag 102 904, North Shore Mail Centre voice: +64 9 414-0800 ext. 9585 fax: +64 9 441-8181 eMail: G....@ma... http://iims.massey.ac.nz |