commandNames

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 12:44 PM -0700 3/29/2009, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>dunbarx wrote:
>
>"And "commandNames" is a function."
>
>indeed.
>
>However it shows up on:
>
>put the functionNames into fld "fFUNX"
>
>the problem concerns 2 word functions, commands, properties, and so on.


As far as the engine is concerned, there is no such thing as a 
two-word command (or function, property name, etc). The parser keys 
off the first word of the command.

The docs sometimes separate out different forms of a function for 
clarity. (For example, "answer" and "answer file" are very different, 
and there is almost no overlap in what has to be documented about 
them, so it would make no sense to dump both onto the same 
documentation page.) But convenience of looking things up in 
documentation doesn't affect what the engine sees as a command - and 
the commandNames reports on the engine's view of the matter. ;-)
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Jeanne A. E. DeVoto, Transcript Language Curmudgeon
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