Trying a custom handler for several math fields

[Vaughn Clement]

Hi J. Gay

I see your point about possible damage. But consider the current effort to
autosize screens to manage the Android device apps. Would this cause the
same problems as your describing for legacy apps? I am starting to see a
trend in the conversation in the How To email that is out to defend LC to
protect the standards of usage. I am not saying this is good or bad, but I
wonder if this will impede the future growth of what was once a very simple
product named HypeCard?

Thank you

Vaughn Clement

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On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:10 AM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 9/14/13 11:55 AM, Vaughn Clement wrote:
>
>> Hi Richard
>>
>> Frankly I was surprised that LC did not recognize commas and money
>> symbols.
>> This is a standard thing in almost any software that has numbers being
>> used? I would think it could be added to the object inspector to set the
>> money settings, and maybe still treat the field as a string for purposes
>> of
>> calculations.
>>
>
> You're used to end-user products, where the work is done under the hood
> for you. Now you're using a general programming language, where you're the
> one writing the code under the hood.
>
> LiveCode is used for many different types of apps, and number crunching is
> just one small part of its capabilities. Just as you would prefer that
> LiveCode manage a particular type of string in one way, someone else's code
> would break if LiveCode took that sort of liberty with their literal string
> entries. The engine can't presume that a dollar sign (or a euro or yen or
> whatever) should be treated in only one way. In fact, the dollar sign
> specifies a global system variable; the engine can't know that you want it
> to mean money and not one of those.
>
> Interfering with commas in numbers would be a disaster. Comma is the
> default delimiter in lists, and almost everyone's code would instantly
> break if that were changed. The engine can't know that your commas are just
> visual indicators and mine separate a list of numbers that I intend to
> process as separate items. As the programmer, you manage all that.
>
> We aren't in end-user land any more. :)
>
>
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