When autocomplete pops up in Xojo 2020 I get stuff like
Add > Append
Ubound > LastIndex
and since all work, I can’t work out what is implied by the > here.
To me > means ‘greater than’
So Ubound is better than LastIndex?
Or does it mean DON’T use Ubound and DO use LastIndex?
Exactly, > like a finger pointing to Xojo’s recommendation (aka API2). “Project Analysis” is explaining in more details what the IDE doesn’t like in your code.
probably would have been better as
Ubound … use ‘LastIndex’
or
Ubound is now LastIndex
or
Ubound ☞ LastIndex
Lucky you that no German developer is working at Xojo. Otherwise it would probably look like:
Ubound (you still can use this command, but WE URGE YOU TO ONLY USE 'LastIndex' (you made this error 16 times in the past 4 hours 21 minutes and 12 seconds). See [32b], [233§bd1], [34f], [12gf], [31], [43], [234], [22cv] for further explanations. You now have 4 (in words four) attempts left until we will deactivate API 1. - This message is GDPR compliant, you can find our privacy policy in the about section.
But more seriously, though I think the platform has more serious issues, I do agree that at first glance the “>” is confusing as it really reads as “greater than”. It will definitely be confusing for hobby developers, who are not too familiar with the changes which happened.
A simple change to ‘–>’ would probably already be enough to confuse people less. It is most likely a very simple and small change but can add quality to the product.