Re: Tutorial

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Peter Bortas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Gotcha. Yeah, I understand that this shouldn't be changed in 8.0, just
>> because it is an incompatibility. But it's fulfilling the concept of
>> the function, so yep, change it in 8.1 IMO.
>
> With before 8.2 I meant potentially in 8.0. :)
>
> Reason being I can come up with plausible (but stupid) scenarios where
> this could break something, but gets is a silly function that never
> gets used except in the tutorial. Having a working tutorial is good.
>
> Or we fix the tutorial. With say, Readline? (Please Readline, don't be
> broken on Windows...)

Oh! I assumed 7.8 was basically closed, so "before 8.2" had only one
option. But sure, I don't mind it getting changed in 8.0. Every piece
of code I've ever written would either benefit from the change (if I
didn't think to trim) or not care (if it's being trimmed). The only
way this would break code is if the code assumes and expects the \r,
in which case the same code would already be broken if it moved to
Unix. A narrow but non-empty fault surface.

ChrisA