Question about Object Names

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 05/27/2011 08:54 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> Well we can all at least be thankful that it is not how a woman would design a language either. Can you imagine having to hint at something and then the computer has to figure out what you really meant? ;-)

Nothing like a bit of sexual stereotyping.

> send "there sure are a lot of numbers around here not doing anything right now" to sum
>
> function sum
>     look around
>     gather numbers whose layingaround is true
>     repeat with i = 1 to the number of numbers laying around
>        add number i to theSum
>     end repeat
>
>     look around some more
>     if the result is true then
>        send "I'm not your personal adding machine!" to sum with "Here we go again!"
>     end if
>
>     return the sum with hopes you got them all
> end sum
>
>
> Bob
>
>
> On May 27, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>>> My understanding is that the 2nd, "prose" or "property", form can only be used with functions that require 0 or 1 arguments. All others require the "funtion(n)" form. And the "prose" form is only allowed for native LiveCode functions, not for user-defined functions.
>>>
>>> Have you seen any counter examples to this rule?
>> I can't think of any offhand.
>>
>> But it's still not how I would design a language. ;)
>>
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