Re: Inform: 'Property long' is obsolete?


9 Oct 95 14:43:34 GMT

In article <1995Oct7.033756.20533@news.cs.indiana.edu>, "Sam Hulick" <shulick@guava.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>
> line 41: Warning: Obsolete usage: all properties are now automatically
> 'long'
> line 42: Warning: Obsolete usage: all properties are now automatically
> 'long'
>
> Then why does it not complain about the lines in 'parser.h' that use
> 'Property long'? Yet it complains in my code...
>

Inform does not warn of obselete (sorry about the typo in the error
message) usages in the library files, since some Inform users have
earlier versions of the compiler which require these usages. Thus
the same library files can be used by all releases of Inform 5, and
everyone is happy.

"long" is indeed obselete (and good riddance). Just omit it (if you
were ever tempted to include it) and all should be well.

Graham