Dollar Sign Variables

[Richmond]

On 11/02/14 22:36, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> Richmond.
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> So if I see an egregious typo, like:
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> putt myVar into someOtherVar
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> then I do what you do.
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> But you never, really never, had to follow the contents of a variable while stepping through a script? Never mind when debugging due to an error, but rather just to see if your plan was sound?

No, never. Mind you, I tend to model my scripts with children's toys, 
chess pieces, LEGO,
or any other things that come to hand all over the living-room carpet, 
the school table, or where-ever first of all.

I also do most of my programming in bed with a scrap of paper and a 
pencil within easy reach. About 6 months ago I got in a fight in a very 
posh restaurant where I had been invited for the wedding breakfast of my 
lawyer's nephew. The whole thing was well tedious, so, not having a book 
I got "fairly tanked" and started having mad ideas, and wrote them down 
all over the linen table-cloth (not having any paper with me): and 
finally got involved in an entertaining shouting match with the head 
waiter when he saw me taking photos of sections of the tablecloth with 
my mobile phone.

This stuff ended up getting rolled into a major rehash of my Devawriter 
program and meaning that my PISMO program was way more elegant in 
programming terms than Devawriter ever was.

Every time I try to do serious programming "from ground zero" on a 
computer I end up reading e-mail messages, farting around on Facebook, 
and generally getting distracted.

Richmond.

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> I remember in the movie "Amadeus", when Salieri was told by Mozart's wife that he made no fair copies of his work, and Salieri, crushed, realized he simply wrote down "the music he heard in his head".
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> Craig
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 3:28 pm
> Subject: Re: Dollar Sign Variables
>
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> On 11/02/14 22:24, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> On 2/11/14, 12:38 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
>>> WHAT!!??!!! WHAAAAT????
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>>>
>>> The first time? How, how is that possible? I have never used
>>> "revXMLEndTree". But the debugger?
>> I was wondering the same thing. How in the world does one program
>> without the debugger?
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>> Jaw dropped.
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> Dunno. Managed it for about 39 years without one.
>
> And RR/LC for the last 12 years.
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> As I said earlier: every time I run a script and it has a problem the
> scriptEditor opens up with a jolly yellow blob exactly where the problem is,
> and I "piss about" until it stops doing that.
>
> Richmond.
>
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