'Coordinate' syntax

[Graham Samuel]

Funny, I never noticed, after all these years…

Thanks, clarified.

Graham

> On 13 Jun 2016, at 23:46, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
> 
> The comma is an infix string concatenation operator much like & and &&.  
> 
> a,b 
> is the same as 
> a & comma & b
> 
> Pretty handy.  
> 
> This can get you into trouble if you accidentally put parentheses around command parameters.  You end up with one argument, a comma separated list.  The compiler doesn't catch it because it is valid.  
> 
> Dar
> 
> 
>> On Jun 13, 2016, at 3:34 PM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In the BMI example which introduces LC 8, there occurs this line of script:
>> 
>> put the cHeight of this stack, the cWeight of this stack into tCoordinates
>> 
>> This has the effect of putting two values (the values of the two custom props) separated by a comma into the variable ‘tCoordinates’. I was surprised by this. Has it always been legal to do this kind of thing without an overt string expression? I would have expected to have to do
>> 
>> put (the cHeight of this stack) & ”,” & (the cWeight of this stack) into tCoordinates
>> 
>> I don’t see in the first version how LC ‘knows’ that the separating comma is legitimate.
>> 
>> Is everyone else OK with this?
>> 
>> Graham
>> 
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