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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Problems with Think Pascal 2.0
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Date: 5 Dec 88 12:48:27 GMT
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In article <5482@polya.Stanford.EDU> lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa) writes:

>By the way, I dislike this feature of LSP. I wish clicking in the close box
>did the normal "complete" close, and command-clicking did the hide. It's
>one of the hardest things about LSP to explain to novice users.

	The concept of "hide" versus "close" is a holdover from old
versions of Lightspeed Pascal, when the initial incremental compilation
took a long time, and loading a source file was a lot slower. For 2.0, it
was decided to generalize the concept and add this to code that was being
newly written, rather than muck around in extremely old code (and risk
breaking it).

	All this mishegoss will probably go away in the future.

		--Rich



Rich Siegel
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