Unusual upgrade log messages...

Ron Stanions (chaeon@roc.clawpaw.com)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 06:50:49 PST




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From:  Jefferson M. Dubrule[SMTP:Jefferson.M.Dubrule@dartmouth.edu]

--- Ron Stanions wrote:
>I've seen these once or twice during other tests and didn't pay them =
any mind,
then realized
>waitasec, break, try, continue, aren't keywords that belong to 1.7.9...

No, but they belong to 1.8.0.  They were probably variable/prop/verb =
names that
were occupying
reserved words that 1.8.0 wanted.  They were renamed to something =
innocuous.


Indeed, I looked through the verbs again and lo and behold the keywords =
mentioned are being used as variable names.  However, taking #20:explode =
as an example, it used the word 'break' on lines 5, 7, 9, and 12, and =
renamed them to break_.  The confusion was that it mentioned this as a =
warning on line 18.