Screen vs Page vs Card

j j at clsdesignassociates.com
Mon Mar 29 14:11:17 EST 2004


>> I'm even uncomfortable with many of the alternative shorthand forms 
>> such as cd when I see them in other people's scripts.
>
> Me, too.  But, I'm a touch typist and I recognize that others struggle 
> with the keyboard.  It might be an "in crowd" jargon for some folks, 
> but I suspect it is to minimize typing and maybe to minimize line 
> length.

For some, it is possibly a hold over from the days when xTalk scripts 
could only be 32k per object, necessitating as much "squeezing" of the 
code as possible.

J.



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