Why isn't Rev more popular?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Dec 2 15:57:48 EST 2005


Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
> Personally, I think the root cause of the problem is the inflexible 
> syntax for non-built-in commands and functions. What I'd like to see is 
> the ability to separate parameters with spaces as well as commas, so you 
> could do something like:
> 
>   on doSomething thisParam,null1,null2,thatParam,null3,null4,theOtherParam
>     -- code here
>   end doSomething
> 
> called with:
>   doSomething 2 times to "fox" in stack (the short name of me)

This is something SuperCard's Internals Toolbox does well, allowing more 
intimate hooks into the interpreter to facilitate more graceful extensions.

It's been too long since I've look at the IT to recall how to use it, 
but at least there's a guiding light for an alternative way of making 
externals.

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  Richard Gaskin
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