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[Keith Clarke]

Synonym might not be the correct term here but the dictionary could help us much more with Thesaurus and/or contextual relationships, because for the part-time coder, it's often difficult with LiveCode to know when to think of properties as nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc.

Just look at the basic properties of an object: 
• metal (noun) - why not 'metallic'
• liveResizing (could be a noun or verb?) - why not 'liveResizable'
• shadow (noun) - why not 'shadowy' or 'enshadowed' ;-)

OK, I guess we can forgive the adverbs - such as 'startUpIconic' - due to the relatively recent support for behaviours means that got into the mix. 
Overall though, LiveCode seems as grammatically regular as any other aspect of English - that's why it's so easy to make mistakes!

Anyway, I'm off to boldly set some split infinitive custom properties on my array of mixed metaphors...
Best,
Keith..    

On 6 May 2011, at 13:35, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> On 05/06/2011 03:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
>> "visibility" ought to be a synonym along with "vis".
>> 
> I don't see how that makes much sense; 'visible' is an adjective, while 'visibility' is
> a noun; so how 'visibility' could be synonymous with 'visible' I just do not see.
> 
> Of course the language is grammatically "off" insofar as it has funny things such as
> 
> set the visible to true
> 
> using a definite article before an adjective belies the claim that the language is English-like!
> 
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