November 2017 Archives

4 days in Amsterdam with porters


Deprecation of $[

Last year, we went over all of the long-standing deprecations in core. All but $[ were given an official EOL. $[ was not because we could not come up with a plan.

There are 3 use cases we expect are going on:

  • using $[ in a conditional
  • Assigning to $[
  • Assigning to $[ but making it = 0 which doesn't do …

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