My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Wed Mar 11 15:04:13 EDT 2009


Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> "Somebody", somewhere has a particularly warped sense of humour:
> 
> soundChannel
> 
> "Has no effect and is included in Transcript for compatibility
 >  with imported HyperCard stacks."
> 
> what gets me is the word 'compatibility' as there is no compatibility;
> HyperCard stacks that are imported that use sound channels WON'T WORK!

You will see that throughout the dictionary in several places. What that 
means is that the keyword is included in the language so it won't throw 
an error when imported scripts use it.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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