[2602] in Athena Bugs
Re: [Barr3y Jaspan: field in list widget structure]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Thu Jul 20 12:26:37 1989
To: Richard Basch <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>, bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 20 Jul 89 10:57:00 -0400.
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 12:26:03 EDT
From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> Some extremely wise person saw fit to change one of the fields in
> XtListReturnStruct,
Yes, unfortunately when Chris chose the original name he didn't
realize that he chose a reserved word for some environments.
We had little choice but to change it, much as we hated doing so.
> Can't there even be a #define for backwards compatibility?
That would only make the original problem worse, sorry.
