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From: Barry.Chern@p4.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Barry Chern)
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Subject: Re: Problems converting to HC2
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Date: 8 Nov 90 07:36:13 GMT
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James Thiele opines in a missive of 05 Nov 90 to John Kevin Calhoun

JT> IHere's the complete list of keywords: do, else, end, exit, function, 
JT> Iglobal, if, next, on, pass, repeat, return, send, then. If you 
JT> have Ihandlers with any of these words as names, you won't able 
JT> to invoke Ithem in 2.0. 
JT>  I think the list of words you can't use as messages is a little 
JT> longer. For example, my buddy and I had trouble with an 'on div' 
JT> handler and a variable named 'me', both of which came from a 
JT> working 1.2.x stack

I had trouble with a previously working stack because it had a variable named
"this". I know, it's lazy, put so-and-so into this, thus-and-such into that...
But they still use them as examples in the Winkler/Kamins book, without ever
saying, "don't try this at home, these are stunt doubles."

--Barry

 
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