Why isn't Rev more popular?
Ken Ray
kray at sonsothunder.com
Wed Dec 7 10:34:58 EST 2005
On 12/7/05 1:12 AM, "Geoff Canyon" <gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 2, 2005, at 12:52 PM, 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 sounds like AppleScript's Prepositional Parameters: <http://
> snipurl.com/ASPrepositional>
>
> I love and hate this idea. Love it because, used properly, it would
> be great. Hate it because it's _hard_ work to define proper syntax,
> and therefore this feature would almost never be used properly.
Actually, since Jeanne was mentioning this for *non-built-in* commands and
functions, it would be up to the developer to define and use the syntax. I
used to do this in SuperCard, since they allow for spaces to separate
params. So I could do this:
on mouseUp
tell (the long id of btn 1) to start
end mouseUp
and have a handler that looked like this:
on tell pObj,pTo,pCommand
send pCommand to pObj
end tell
Notice that words like "to" and "in" would be parameters, but not used (as I
don't use pTo above), but it allows for a lot of flexibility in the
language.
I agree with Jeanne on this...
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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