set rect of fld f1 of cd c1 of wd w1 to rect of fld f2 of cd c2 of wd w2

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Aug 30 06:45:11 EDT 2005


David Burgun wrote:

>> How about if we eliminate both and enforce just a single-character
>> typing convention for objects and numeric values only for object
>> identification? That way "field 3 of card 7" would come out to "f3c7"
>> for a minimum of typing. The engine's parser would, of course,
>> separate these into separate tokens "f 3 c 7" and be quite happy.
>> Developers would have to type just four characters and the code would
>> be much more readable because there's just one way to describe an
>> object instead of two. The engine's parser would also run faster
>> because it wouldn't have to discriminate between two different forms
>> of object description.
>
> This sounds and looks just horrible!

WTM?  !comf w/abbr?

(Translation:  What's the matter?  Not comfortable with abbreviations?")

I'm with you:  Transcript's existing abbreviations are about as sparse 
as I'd like to go.

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