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

[Barry Wiseman]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 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

My recollection kind of agrees with Jay's.   Expressions in mid were needed so Howie 
could code his racing game, and I the worm game.  1.1 sounds about right.  The other 
game-driven feature was the RANDOM function.