Transcript and Dot Notation

[Judy Perry]

1.  It being "optional" didn't stop it from destroying accessibility to
verbose Lingo in Director.  Latecomers to Director didn't have any other
learning "options" or "choices" than dot.speak.

2.  Optional isn't the same as transparent.  I'd be less leery if I could
look in a crystal ball and see that it was implemented in a transparent
fashion.

3.  It's a slippery slope.  Once it heads down that path, there will be
little reason to implement new functionalities in Rev taking care to do it
in a natural-language fashion.

This is why it's controversial.  At least to me it is.

Judy

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> OPTIONS mean choice.  Only you are in control of the choices you make.
>
> You can choose to use regex and then complain about having made that
> choice, but no one from RunRev is making that choice for you.
>
> This is so very non-controversial I'm surprised it comes up again and
> again as such....