Handling of final delimter (was Re: "this me"?)

[Geoff Canyon]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

>
> My favorite annoyance with xTalks is the decision by the HyperTalk team to
> allow some functions to be called as though they're properties - but not
> all.  You can say "get the abs of -10" or "abs(-10)", and you can say "get
> offset("l", "hello") but not "get the offset of "l" in "hello".
>
> Stranger still, the "abs" function turns out to be an especially good
> example:  it's an abbreviation for which the long form ("absolute") is not
> permitted. I kid you not.
>


These are both going to be correctable in a soon-ish time frame if the new
language features meet the spec. (waiting breathlessly)