The future of filePro... one major one anyway!

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon May 21 11:25:46 PDT 2007


On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:25:07PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Mon, 21 May 2007 13:47:03 -0400):
> [...]
> > Do I correctly remember an anecdote that the reason the numeric
> > arguments to MID started to require quotes in, what, 3.0?, was that
> > someone wanted to write PacMan in filePro?
> [...]
> 
> Haven't heard that one before.

Then I guess it's apocryphal, cause I understood it to have been either
you or Dave.

> However, the change in MID() from taking hard-coded literals to
> allowing expressions, was IIRC in 1.1, not 3.0.  It may have been
> version 3.0 which dropped PFMID=OLD support.

Ah.

Cheers,
-- jra
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