Bug 20255 - Simple Loop Labeling

Mark Wieder ahsoftware at sonic.net
Thu Aug 10 21:38:24 EDT 2017


On 08/10/2017 06:24 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote:

> So we need:
> 
> 1. an optional way to add such comments (even users that want them might not want them unless they are making spaghetti)
> 2. automagical maintenance if the comments exist and you change the condition
> 3. work out whether tags rather than the actual condition is what people really want because the condition might add too much clutter:
> 
> if some complicated condition then # I’m a makin’ spaghetti
>     — spaghetti
> end if # I’m a makin' spaghetti

I would actually argue against this. For me, the useful part would be

end if # some complicated condition

Otherwise, making the user come up with a comment that basically says 
"some complicated condition" anyway, and doing all the maintentance 
you've described above sounds like a lot of work for very little gain.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com





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