Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

Mark Waddingham mark at livecode.com
Thu Jun 8 17:19:22 EDT 2017


tExt is all I'll say ;) (thanks to Ken Ray for that one)

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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> On 8 Jun 2017, at 22:07, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/8/17 3:19 PM, tbodine via use-livecode wrote:
>> Thanks for the encouragement, Richard. Looks like I'll be doing the "Humility
>> Workout" for quite some time.
>> For future list searchers who might have this same symptom, I found the
>> cause: One of my stack level scripts used "theme" as a parameter name, but
>> apparently that's a reserved term that is strictly enforced in LC 8.
>> Changing that allowed all my stack scripts to run normally.
> 
> That's the main reason I preface all variables with a letter, usually "t" for handler-local variables, "g" for globals, "s" for script-locals, and "k" for constants. You don't have to use the same letters but those have pretty much become the standards (some people prefer "c" for constants, but I use that for custom properties.)
> 
> If you adopt a system like this, you'll never have a naming conflict.
> 
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