Why I love LiveCode

[Devin Asay]

I have been using LC/Rev since v. 1.0 beta, and HyperCard for 10 years before that, and I never knew you could do this. It's probably LC 101 to most of you, but for some reason I had never needed to do this.

I was in a substack and needed to know which card was currently showing in the mainstack.

So I tried:

  put this card of stack "foo" -- the mainstack --> error, not a container.

So then I tried

  put the name of this card of stack "foo" --> works!

It's even more readable like this

  put the name of the current card of stack "foo" -- 'current' is a synonym of 'this'

I love "guessable" syntax!

Cheers!

Devin

Devin Asay
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