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[stephen barncard]

Another good piece of advice is watch namespaces. The parser looks at all
tokens, so avoid the use of names that match language functions, commands or
properties.   A handler named  answerDialog for instance, is bound for
trouble.

This usually can be avoided by using the 'standard' prefixes as explained
here clearly by Mr. Gaskin.

http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/scriptstyle.html

All this info is good, re this topic - scroll down to 'naming conventions'.

On 25 July 2011 09:40, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> I concur with Ken. So many environments do not allow the use of spaces.
> Some are case sensitive. The solution for me? Always use a-z lowercase
> names, never capitalize anything. Otherwise I WILL end up biting my own
> butt.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Jul 25, 2011, at 6:15 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
>
> >> The tendency of programmers to use non-human-like language for object
> names really drives me more than nuts. LiveCode allows for spaces in object
> and file names. Use them!
> >
> > Mark, although I can appreciate your feelings about this, there are
> legitimate reasons one might not want to use spaces in object names:
> >
> > 1) It is more efficient as it takes less characters to type
> > 2) You can quickly select the name of the object by double-clicking it
> > 3) You can more easily distinguish object names from text strings when
> glancing through your code
> > 4) Most other languages don't let you do this, so If you use multiple
> languages it would be better to have a consistent style across languages.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents,
> >
> >
> > Ken Ray
> > Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> > Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com
> >
> >
>
>
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