[Potato Uno]

We need to call Chdata in here to read your response. The reaction should say enough.

[nergal]

Originally Posted by Wliu You forgot about the lengthy deprecation period and the major version bump that needs to happen before old code can be removed. Many servers are running old-style plugins that are no longer supported. Who are going to update those? Just saying "yeah, someone will fix them" isn't going to cut it.

OH WELL. Everyone of the plugins that I still support have gone 1.7 syntax.

If there's a will, there's a way. If those plugins really are supported and need someone to fix them up, they WILL get fixed up...

If nobody gives a shit about them, of course nobody will fix them up.

[Potato Uno]

nergal just drop the subject. You aren't going to win, not a fucking chance. If the SM devs didn't care about breaking old plugins smx files wouldn't exist today.

The parentheses requirement for view_as() was already an awful enough of a breakage.

[Wliu]

Originally Posted by nergal OH WELL. Everyone of the plugins that I still support have gone 1.7 syntax. If there's a will, there's a way. If those plugins really are supported and need someone to fix them up, they WILL get fixed up... If nobody gives a shit about them, of course nobody will fix them up.

Just because your plugins support 1.7 doesn't mean everyone else's does. It's not just about you.

Ok, that's it from me. Following Potato Uno's advice here and dropping the subject.

[KissLick]

Originally Posted by nergal OH WELL. Everyone of the plugins that I still support have gone 1.7 syntax. If there's a will, there's a way. If those plugins really are supported and need someone to fix them up, they WILL get fixed up... If nobody gives a shit about them, of course nobody will fix them up.

Should I port this to 1.7 syntax?
And who is gonna port Zombie:Reloaded, UMC or SourceBans etc. ?

[asherkin]

Originally Posted by Potato Uno The parentheses requirement for view_as() was already an awful enough of a breakage.

view_as was only ever documented as requiring parenthesis, compiling without them was a bug that some silly people kept promoting after being told it was being fixed.

[Neuro Toxin]

I still cant figure how someone would look at a view_as statement without parenthesis and come to the conclusion it's ok.

float val = view_as<float>someval; == wrong
float val = view_as<float>(someval); == right

[Drixevel]

Originally Posted by Neuro Toxin I still cant figure how someone would look at a view_as statement without parenthesis and come to the conclusion it's ok. float val = view_as<float>someval; == wrong float val = view_as<float>(someval); == right

Probably because before, you had to do this:

new Float:val = Float:someval;

and not this:

new Float:val = Float:(someval);

or

new Float:val = Float(someval);

[WildCard65]

Originally Posted by r3dw3r3w0lf new Float:val = Float(someval);

Is actually:

new Float:val = float(someval);

[Neuro Toxin]

I'm use to casting in other langs. And can see if someone only used source pawn how they could get tricked between syntax.

Edit: lets use the new syntax here.

float val = float (someval);

Wait a sec. That's not right lol