it and explicitVar?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Bob, thanks for the suggestion, but I try to avoid things I haven't written myself as add-ons. I've read some pretty good things about GLX2, but I'm also watching my pennies. (smile)

Joe Wilkins

On Nov 23, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote:

> Joe, give GLX2 a try. It uses a feature called Clairvoyance which after 3 or 4 letters gives you a list of variables and command/functions you have accessed or created in your scripts prior. This can be a big help, because if after typing a variable that should already exist, you do NOT get a clairvoyance suggestion, you probably have a typo. 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Nov 23, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> 
>> Richard: 
>> 
>> Thanks for the great explanation. I'm sold, though the discovery of this feature's existence WAS a bit traumatic! I wasn't following this list for a few months. In addition to my very poor vision, I recently broke a couple of fingers on my right hand, so the number of my typos has increased substantially, making this a very welcome addition.
>> 
>> Jod Wilkins
>> 
>> On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> 
>>> Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>>> 
>>>> With my poor vision I can see how I've missed "Strict Compilation
>>>> Mode"; why couldn't they have used "explicitVars"? (sigh!)
>>> 
>>> There's a Preference setting under "General" with the option to have the IDE display either "Description of option" or "Name of LiveCode property".
>>> 
>>> By default the IDE is set to use the former, though I find it much more helpful - especially for learners - to use the actual property nanes since it lets use of the IDE also reinforce one's learning of what the engine is doing in the IDE.   And, after all, the English-like readability of property names in LiveCode makes most of them self-evident anyway.
>>> 
>>> The "Strict Compilation Mode" option in Preferences->Script Editor may appear to be an exception to this, since its label doesn't change when you change the IDE labeling preference.
>>> 
>>> But on closer examination, what the IDE does with "Strict Compilation Mode" isn't quite the same thing as setting the explicitVars global property; IMO it's much more useful:
>>> 
>>> With explicitVars set to true, all scripts in memory during the session must have been written with that relatively-recent addition to the language in mind; any exceptions will throw an error, and all such scripts will need to be updated to conform to the requirements of explicitVars before they can be used at all, even those you didn't write like plugins, third-party libraries, or IDE elements.
>>> 
>>> With "Strict Compilation Mode", the explicitVars property is set only temporarily during the brief moment a script is saved to its object, effectively limiting its scope to only those scripts you're editing yourself.
>>> 
>>> Personally I find this a much more useful option, since it allows me to use it only when I want it, but doesn't stop all work on a project until I bring every script into compliance with explicitVars.
>>> 
>>> I think there are good reasons to use explicitVars and not to use it, depending on the nature of the work I'm doing at a given moment.   The IDE's implementation, limited in scope as it is, gives us the best of both worlds.
>>> 
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