What is "Open Language"?

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2015-10-24 22:07, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> This is the main thing I have been looking forward to for the past 
> several
> years. The goal was to allow the addition of truly new syntax and
> functionality to the language. I really wanted this, and widgets is 
> what it
> has turned into. Not that widgets aren't a good thing, but I'd really 
> like
> to be able to use:
> repeat for each line L in someText with index i
> 
> apply myFunction to X until the value converges
> 
> apply (+1) to every item of myList where it mod 2 = 1
> 
> ...and many, many more.

No - widgets is not what it has turned into. Widgets are entirely 
orthogonal - they about extending the controls you can use in LiveCode, 
not the syntax (after all having lots of nice syntax is great, but if 
you don't have the things you can instruct to do things with it, then it 
perhaps isn't very useful).

Mark.

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