Developer Annoyance #1

[Jim Ault]

> 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&quote]],[[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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