New chunks

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Ben.


Why not "unicodeWord" or "uniWord". Roger takes that a step yet further, and, well, why not?



For the sentence, is this a chunk delimited by a period and a space?
For the paragraph, is this a chunk delimited by two returns?



Craig Newman


For the

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 2:41 pm
Subject: Re: New chunks


uword
or
wordup (up = unicode part)

~Roger


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Benjamin Beaumont <ben at runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We're in the process of adding some new chunk types in LiveCode 7 and we
> would appreciate suggestions for a particular chunk name.
>
> The new chunk types are:
>
> naturalword (breaks on unicode word boundaries)
> sentence (breaks on unicode sentence boundaries)
> paragraph (Same behaviour as current 'line' chunk)
>
> The first chunk is called 'naturalword' because 'word' is already in use.
> Renaming the current 'word' chunk to 'token' to free up 'word' is not an
> option for backward compatibility. We are also limited by the current
> parser which doesn't allow us to use the form:
>
> put natural word 1 of "this is a string of words"
>
> 'naturalword' is the clearest internal suggestion at the moment and we'd
> love to get the input from community members if there is an even clearer
> option.
>
> Warm regards and thank you for your input.
>
> Ben
>
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