Developer Annoyance #1
Jim Ault
JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 17 00:55:15 EST 2006
> I'm not sure that this is the right direction for any language to be
> headed. Please explain why we can't have the following syntax:
>
> put calc(varA,varB) of btn "source" into localResult
>
Please explain what you mean by this.. I don't understand what you are
trying to do
What is 'calc(varA,varB) of btn "source"
At the moment, this makes no sense to me.
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On 3/16/06 9:43 PM, "Arthur Urban" <aturban at qwest.net> wrote:
> I think a new syntax needs to be made available for calling functions
> outside the message hierarchy. The existing mechanism does not lend
> itself to high readability or maintainability. Consider the following,
> if you will:
>
> put 1 into varA
> put 2 into varB
> put value( merge("calc([[varA]],[[varB]]))", btn "source" ) into
> localResult
>
> further, if I need to protect the integrity of the variable passed it
> begins to look like this:
>
> put "1,2,3" into varA
> put 4 into varB
> put value( merge("calc([[quote&varA"e]],[[varB]]))", btn "source"
> ) into localResult
>
> I'm not sure that this is the right direction for any language to be
> headed. Please explain why we can't have the following syntax:
>
> put calc(varA,varB) of btn "source" into localResult
>
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