Re: Inform: 'Property long' is obsolete?


10 Oct 1995 14:22:10 -0400

In article <1995Oct9.144334@oxvaxd>, nelson@vax.oxford.ac.uk (Mathematical
Institute, (01865) 2-73525) writes:

>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.
>
>

My dictionary spells the word OBSOLETE, and has no entry for OBSELETE. Or
is this just
another quaint US-UK difference in spelling?

Jeff