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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: OpenScreen (need help)
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 01:46:06 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Juergen "Rally" Fischer (fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE) wrote:
- : Jaco Schoonen (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
- : : Juergen "Rally" Fischer (fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:
-
- : : : huh ? he asked for how to use openscreen. what is sytem unfriendly ?
-
- : : Yeah right, it's just better to keep the constant names in your source
- : : instead of using the actual values. If those values ever change you just
-
- : If the value changes, the one who changed it is sysunfriendly!
- : what is your point ?
-
- I guess you're right. At that point they would stop being
- backward-scompatible. It's preferred to stay backwards compatible as long as
- possible, but when you like at MS-DOS/Win/Win95 you can ask yourself wether
- you can stay too long backwards compatible....
-
- If there's a really good reason to change those numbers that's fine for me.
- Of course it'd better be good (and I can't think of such a reason at the
- moment)
-
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
-